True Prohibition
Improvement Era, vol. 22, no. 11, September 1919, p. 964
Coleman, Guy C.
True Prohibition
Not the statute of a state, Prohibiting the sale of noxious drink To him, compelled to slip and slink Through alley dark, to haunt accursed To slake his craving, crazing thirst;
But the tried heart's firm resolve That masters and forbids the liquor lust; That whispers secretly, "Thou must. For her and God—be clean and pure, — Is prohibition, true and sure! Guy C. Coleman