The Chemical conviction 1
That Nought be lost
Enable in Disaster
My fractured Trust－
The Faces of the Atoms 5
If I shall see
How more the Finished Creatures
Departed me!
That Nought be lost
Enable in Disaster
My fractured Trust－
The Faces of the Atoms 5
If I shall see
How more the Finished Creatures
Departed me!
(F.1070/J.954)
[1] conviction:: the act of proving.
[2] lost:: the mass cannot be destroyed in a chemical reaction.
[3] Disaster:: whiskey dissipated in a bottle with fracture.
[7] Creatures:: alcoholic drinks, whiskey.
[8] Departed:: reduced, the whiskey in a bottle dissipated.
This whisky he used occasionally to keep out cold, a drop of the good creature of God as it was then esteemed. ─ The Ipswich Series of Temperance Tracts (1846)