THE VOTE!

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 167, 9 April 1919, Page 11

THE VOTE!

Vote out tfce out the power that steals The life of: man—that dulls, the joyous brain;' .;; That smites the heart, so that it never feels, YY'..;Y The first fine love or ecstacy again,, Vote out the Thing that dowers with disease, -:- Within the womb, the little life asleep; That, wakening, shall find hot any ease, Y And, limping into life, lives but to weep. • Vote out the fear p of children who must run, .'a. From the dull fury or the worse; embrace; Who wonder why the happy days are done When they could smile into a father's face. Vote out the dread of wives who wait alone For. the wild step, the maudlin kiss, the blow; Or shrink beside the monster wildly; thrown ;Qti marriage-bed whence love went long ago. Vote out the Snake coiled in the city's heart, That glides upon the simple, laughing boy With the first fatal cup, and with tireless art, Pursues him to the ending of his joy.. Vote out the tears of mothers who await A son's bright step and eager eyes agleami Who find a bully blundering at the gate, And know their hope is but a dying dream Vote out the crimes that crimson from the Vote out the madness and the slow despair; The Suicide's dark anguish—giving up Because the wine has made the world all bare, Vote for the coming in of better thingsVote for the fuller life and love and homeVote tor the Nation—Vote for the land that sings; Vote for the health and happiness to come!