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Title: Song For A Temperance Dinner To Which Ladies Were Invited Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes [More Titles by Holmes] FOR A TEMPERANCE DINNER TO WHICH LADIES WERE INVITED (NEW YORK MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, NOVEMBER, 1842) A HEALTH to dear woman! She bids us untwine, A health to sweet woman! The days are no more Alas for the loved one! too spotless and fair Joy smiles in the fountain, health flows in the rills, Then a health and a welcome to woman once more! [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |