it was on one dark and starless night i heard and saw an awful sight the lightning flashed the thunder rolled across my dark denial soul i saw a gulf form down below where all the dying drunkards go i saw another weeping crowd bloodshotten eyes and voices loud come here young man we ll give you room this is the whiskey seller s doom i started there got there at last i thought i d take a social glass but every time i started in i thought about the drunkard s den i smashed it down and left the place i went to seek redeeming grace i felt like paul who once did pray for god to wash his sins away i started home to change my life to see my loving neglected wife i found her weeping over the bed because our infant babe was dead i told her not to cry or weep our little baby had gone to sleep it s little soul had passed away to ring with christ an endless day i took her by her lilly white hand she was so weak she could not stand i knelt her down and prayed a prayer that god might save and bless us there and now i live a better life in a christian home with a loving wife