May we lift our voices high To that sweet bye and bye, And be known by the brand of the Lord; For his property we are, And he will know us from afar When he rounds us up in glory bye and bye. THE DRUNKARD'S HELL It was on a cold and stormy night I saw and heard an awful sight; The lightning flashed and thunder rolled Around my poor benighted soul. I thought I heard a mournful sound Among the groans still lower down, That awful sight no tongue can tell Is this,--the place called Drunkard's Hell. I thought I saw the gulf below Where all the dying drunkards go. I raised my hand and sad to tell It was the place called Drunkard's Hell. I traveled on and got there at last And started to take a social glass; But every time I started,--well, I thought about the Drunkard's Hell. I dashed it down to leave that place And started to seek redeeming grace. I felt like Paul, at once I'd pray Till all my sins were washed away. I then went home to change my life And see my long neglected wife. I found her weeping o'er the bed Because her infant babe was dead. I told her not to mourn and weep Because her babe had gone to sleep; Its happy soul had fled away To dwell with Christ till endless day. I taken her by her pale white hand, She was so weak she could not stand; I laid her down and breathed a prayer That God might bless and save her there. I then went to the Temperance hall And taken a pledge among them all. They taken me in with a willing hand And taken me in as a temperance man. So seven long years have passed away Since first I bowed my knees to pray; So now I live a sober life With a happy home and a loving wife. RAMBLING BOY I am a wild and roving lad, A wild and rambling lad I'll be; For I do love a little girl And she does love me. "O Willie, O Willie, I love you so, I love you more than I do know; And if my tongue could tell you so I'd give the world to let you know." When Julia's old father came this to know,-- That Julia and Willie were loving so,-- He ripped and swore among them all, And swore he'd use a cannon ball. She wrote Willie a letter with her right hand And sent it to him in the western land. "Oh, read these lines, sweet William dear. For this is the last of me you will hear." He read those lines while he wept and cried, "Ten thousand times I wish I had died", He read those lines while he wept and said, "Ten thousand times I wish I were dead." When her old father came home that night He called for Julia, his heart's delight, He ran up stairs and her door he broke And found her hanging by her own bed rope. And with his knife he cut her down, And in her bosom this note he found Saying, "Dig my grave both deep and wide And bury sweet Willie by my side."