THE TWO STREETS by Nixon Waterman

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 15, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 37.

THE TWO STREETS.

By Nixon Waterman

Two streets there are in many towns, A fool one and a fair; In one the sweetest peace abounds, In one a dark despair. In one the light of love is shed, In one grief’s bitter tear; The name of one of these is “Bread,” The name of one is “Beer.”

In Bread Street there are busy men, And happy homes and wives; In Beer Street the degraded den, And sad and broken lives. In Bread Street Plenty sings her song And Labor chants his rhyme; In Beer Street want is joined with wrong, And idleness with crime.

O men and mothers, strive to do The most you can to make The children shun the ones who brew, But love the ones who bake! There is a street their feet should tread, And one their feet should fear,— The name of one of these is “Bread,” The name of one is “Beer.”

—Nixon Waterman, in The Voice.