A Millennial Town (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Millennial Town A Glimpse of Sin. One dark, cold night that followed A drear December day, When the new fall'n snow, beneath the feet In scattered patches lay, I saw a youth quite thinly clad, Who once was brave and strong, Now wasted by disease, and pale, Come hurrying along. And as he passed I saw the marks Of frozen tear-drops there, Which told a tale of suffering, Of misery and despair. At home he'd left a youthful wife, With babe on bed of straw, Scarcely protected from the gale Of bitter wind and raw. Thought he, "I know 'tis wrong to steal Aught from my fellow-man - 'Thou shalt not steal, ' the Bible says, But I've done the best I can. In Gibson's store I once had work Till sickness laid me low, Then to keep from sufr'ring, Bessie had To wash, and iron and sew. Now she is sick and our sweet babe Will suffer from the cold, Unless I carry out my plan And steal that watch of gold. I'll pay it back when I find work, And give big interest, too, To live by illy-gotten hoard - No, I shall never do. In vain I've tried to find me work, About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.