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Show ORGANIZED CHARITY. Cheques drawn by hunger should be promptly cashed, Wherever charity makes distributions; The payees ne'er be made to stand abashed For judgment on their moral constlutions. 'Twas thus I saw two daughters of disaster, One hungry-good, the other hungry-bad. The former had a letter from her pastor, The latter neither line nor pastor had. And so the hungry-bad, with mind dejected, Turned slowly to the throbbing thoroughfare Wherein, as may bo readily suspected, She had riot walked the distance of a square Ere she a Christian gentleman did meet, Who, after long and pious meditation, Becoming much more generous than discreet Relieved her want and shared her degradation The hungry-bad I saw but once again The silent, focal object of a curious crowd-Her crowd-Her eyes, were glazed, the acid's searing stain Was on her lips; her soul to death had bowed. The moral is, I think, conspiouous So plain, In fact, that all who run may read--That goodness ought to be ubliquitous, And charity is what all people need. Town Talk. |