| I will not swear, I will not smoke, I will not
crack a naughty joke, I will not drink a drop of booze, my temper I will never lose. I will not gam- ble, steal or lie nor cheat my neighbor on the sly, I'll help the poor with lavish hand and for the right will take my stand. I will not knock against my town, but try to keep dissension down, of people's faults I will not talk nor spit upon the floor or walk and thus distribute deadly germs; nor patronize mail order firms. I'll try to be a moral guide, a beacon, shining far and wide. I'll seek the right and shun the wrong and make this life one happy song. The virtuous path today I'll seek and walk in it___perhaps a week. |
Verdigris Valley Verse
Albert Stroud
(Coffeyville, Kansas: The Journal Press. 1917)
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