The Drunkard's Tree
Anon
Genre: | Poetry |
Subjects: | Temperance, Physiology, Disease |
A picture-poem in the shape of a tree declaims against 'the sin of drunkenness', which 'Corrupts the Blood, inflames the Liver, / Weakens the Brain, turns Men into walking / Hospitals, causes internal, external, and incurable / Wounds'. | |
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