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current | 02:46, 4 January 2017 | ![]() | 4,000 × 4,638 (5.72 MB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | <i>Gin Lane</i>, from <i>Beer Street and Gin Lane</i> <p>The accompanying poem, not printed in this reissue, reads: </p> <dl> <dd>Gin, cursed Fiend, with Fury fraught,</dd> <dd> Makes human Race a Prey.</dd> <dd>It enters by a deadly Draught</dd> <dd> And steals our Life away.</dd> </dl> <p><br></p> <dl> <dd>Virtue and Truth, driv'n to Despair</dd> <dd> Its Rage compells to fly,</dd> <dd>But cherishes with hellish Care</dd> <dd> Theft, Murder, Perjury.</dd> </dl> <p><br></p> <dl> <dd>Damned Cup! that on the Vitals preys</dd> <dd> That liquid Fire contains,</dd> <dd>Which Madness to the heart conveys,</dd> <dd> And rolls it thro' the Veins.</dd> </dl> |
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