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" The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison-air: It is only what is good in Man That wastes and withers there: Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate, And the Warder is Despair. "
Proceedings of the Annual Congress of the American Prison Association - Page 43
by American Prison Association. Congress - 1908
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Proceedings of the Wisconsin State Conference of Charities and Corrections

Public welfare - 1895 - 510 pages
...offenders out of prison; they realized that "The vilest deeds, like posion weeds, bloom well in prison air; "It is only what is good in man that wastes and withers there." To preserve the good in man, defendants were permitted to go at large on their own recognizance, cases...
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The Wonderful Century: Its Successes and Its Failures

Alfred Russel Wallace - Civilization - 1898 - 454 pages
...radiant in the light. —TL Harrii. The vilest deeds, like poison weeds, Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in Man That wastes and withers...Anguish keeps the heavy gate, And the Warder is Despair. — T/ie Ballad of Beading Jail. THE first half of the century produced much good work that has not...
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The Wonderful Century: Its Successes and Its Failures

Alfred Russel Wallace - Civilization - 1898 - 486 pages
...radiant in the light. —TL Uarrii. The vilest deeds, like poison weeds. Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in Man That wastes and withers...Anguish keeps the heavy gate. And the Warder is Despair. —JK» Ballad of Reading Jail. THE first half of the century produced much good work that has not...
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Oscar Wilde - Imprisonment - 1899 - 104 pages
...hide their Hell, For in it things are done That Son of God nor son of Man Ever should look upon ! fc The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison-air...Anguish keeps the heavy gate, And the Warder is Despair. 39 For they starve the little frightened child Till it weeps both night and day : And they scourge...
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Oscar Wilde - Imprisonment - 1901 - 40 pages
...the gracious moon, For in it things are done That Son of God nor son of Man Ever should look upon! The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison-air: It is only what is good in Man And the Warder is Despair. For they starve the little frightened child That wastes and withers there:...
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The City Jail: A Symposium

Fay Lewis - Jails - 1903 - 112 pages
...nor son of Man Ever should look upon ! The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air: It is only what is good in Man That wastes and withers...Anguish keeps the heavy gate, And the Warder is Despair. Bach narrow cell in which we dwell Is a foul and dark latrine, And the fetid breath of living Death...
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The United Brethren Review, Volume 17

1906 - 406 pages
...in his "Ballard of Heading Gaol'': "The vilest deeds, like poison weeds, Bloom well in prison air: It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers...keeps the heavy gate, And the warder is Despair." All who are interested in humanizing and Christianizing our penal methods ought to especially rejoice...
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Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers

Arthur Brisbane - Editorials - 1906 - 422 pages
...men's souls ; and one has said who knew prison life : "It is only what is good in man That wastes afld withers there; Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate, And the Warder is Despair." While you go through the prison you see the things mentioned — electric lights, clean halls, bathing...
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Christianity and the Modern Mind

Samuel McComb - Christianity - 1910 - 372 pages
...Beading Gaol, by 0. 33 (Oscar Wilde). " The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air: It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers...Anguish keeps the heavy gate, And the Warder is Despair. " Nevertheless it remains true that in certain instances pain has the power to mature some latent spiritual...
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Anarchism and Other Essays

Emma Goldman, Hippolyte Havel - Political Science - 1910 - 298 pages
...masterpiece, The Ballad of Reading Goal: The vilest deeds, like poison weeds, Bloom well in prison air ; It is only what is good in Man That wastes and withers...Anguish keeps the heavy gate, And the Warder is Despair. Society goes on perpetuating this poisonous air, not realizing that out of it can come naught but the...
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