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Then let the chill Sirocco blow,
And gird us round with hills of snow;
Or else go whistle to the shore
And make the hollow mountains roar.

While we together jovial sit
Careless, and crowned with mirth and wit;
Where though bleak winds confine us home,
Our fancies round the world shall roam.

We think of all the friends we know,
And drink to all worth drinking to;
When having drunk all thine and mine,
We rather shall want health than wine.

But where friends fail us, we'll supply
Our friendships with our charity;
Men that remote in sorrows live,
Shall by our lusty brimmers thrive.

We'll drink the wanting into wealth,
And those that languish into health,
The afflicted into joy, th'opprest
Into security and rest.

The worthy in disgrace shall find
Favour return again more kind;
And in restraint who stifled lie,
Shall taste the air of liberty.

The brave shall triumph in success,
The lovers shall have mistresses,
Poor unregarded virtue, praise;
And the neglected poet, bays.