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S. D. A. Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 10, 1884

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 2

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SPEECH OF OLD RYE

By Carson

Temperance.

SPEECH OF OLD RYE.

I was made to be eaten, And not to be drank; To be threshed in a barn, Not soaked in a tank.
I came as a blessing, When run through a mill; As a blight and a curse, When put through a still.
Make me up into loaves, And your children are fed; But if into drink, I will starve them instead.
In bread I’m the servant, The eater shall rule; In drink I’m the master, The drinker a fool.
Then remember the warning— My strength I’ll employ, If eaten, to strengthen, If drunk to destroy. —Carson.