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That you may be able to do this, I pray you to perse- 

 vere in this good cause. And as for myself, I will ask 

 for no prouder monument to my fame than to be assured 

 that the members of this society will stand as mourners 

 around my grave, and pointing to the lifeless form be- 

 neath the falling sod, shall truly say there lies a brother 

 who in his life had an ardent desire to promote the happi- 

 ness of his fellow creatures — May his historian be able 

 to record that in the later years of his life he was emi- 

 nently successful in this — and particularly so upon this 

 evening. 



Temperance Song 



a new version of "come, come away." 



By Solon Robinson, Esq. 



[Valparaiso Western Ranger, May 26, 1847] 



[May 26?, 1847] 



Come, come away, from drinking and carousing, 

 Health, wealth and joy, it will destroy, 

 Oh ! come, come away ! 

 Oh ! come where friends will welcome you. 

 And where with love and friendship true 

 Hearts their love renew, 

 Oh! come, come away!^ 



From cup and from bowl, with poison overflowing. 

 From life's dread snare, death and despair,- 

 Oh ! come, come away ! 



Oh ! come where wife and happy home. 



And smiling children love to roam, 



' An issue of the Western Ranger — bearing the name of D. K. 

 Pettibone, one-time clerk of Lake County — now in the bound vol- 

 ume of the Ranger in the Valparaiso Public Library, contains the 

 following penciled corrections to this stanza : 



Line 1 : "0 come, come away, from drinking and carousing" 



Last three lines: "And where we all may join anew, 

 In love and friendship true, 

 Oh! come, come away!" 



' See note 1. This line is corrected to: "From life's dread snare, 

 and dark despair." 



