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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=384523" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Origin Of The Liquor Dealer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=384523" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The devil in hell gave a festival,<br>And he called his imps from their wine-<br>Called them up from the ruddy cup,<br>And marshalled them into line.<br>And each to his place sprang the imps apace,<br>And they stood there, side by side.<br>'Now, listen well, O ye hosts of hell!<br>And mark me,' the devil cried.<br>'There is work to do for all of you,<br>Held for this night in store.<br>Then stir up the fire, till it burneth higher<br>Than ever it burned before.<br>When the coals glow hot, set ye the pot<br>Half full of the best brimstone.<br>And three of the worst and the most accursed<br>Hell claimeth as its own<br>Of demons bring, when the pot shall sing,<br>And cast them into the boil.'<br>Then over the region scattered the legion<br>Away to the fiendish toil.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=384523" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br>They work with a will, and they work until<br>Three imps are aboil in the pot;<br>And the devil stands, and stirs with his hands<br>The liquid, seething hot;<br>And the demons revel around the devil<br>With many a fiendish shout,<br>Till he cries 'Ho, ho!' and the demons go<br>And turn the liquid out.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=384523" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br>Turn it in, to a lake of gin,<br>Where the devil bathes, to cool.<br>Then lift it up, and turn on a cup<br>Of wine they dip from a pool.<br>Then they dip it in ale, till it turneth pale,<br>In beer, till it gloweth red.<br>It? nay, HE! for the thing they see<br>Is a man, from heel to head.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=384523" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br>And he clasps the hands of the devil who stands<br>Bowing before his face.<br>And he says, 'Dear friend, will you please to send<br>A lad to show me my place?'</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=384523" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br>And the devil winks sly: and he says, 'Ay, ay!'<br>Old fellow, I guess you'll do.<br>You can work more wrong with that oily tongue<br>Than all my malicious crew.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=384523" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br>'You must go to the earth! In th' halls of mirth,<br>In the teeming city's heart-<br>In any place that you show your face<br>I will help you do your part.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=384523" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br>I will give you a name-it is steeped in shame,<br>But the world will use you well.<br>It is 'Liquor Dealer.' It means <br>soul stealer</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=384523" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">And Major-General of Hell.<br>Go forth, my friend, and work to the end,<br>I will pay you in gleaming gold;<br>For every soul you drown in the bowl,<br>I will give you wealth untold.'</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=384523" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br>Then forth he went, this fiend hell-sent,<br>And he doeth his work to-day-<br>Doeth it well; and the hosts of hell<br>Are singing his praise alway.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Ella+Wheeler+Wilcox">Ella Wheeler Wilcox</a></strong></div>