Sprig of shilela, &c./A Good Excuse for Drinking

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Sprig of shilela, &c. (between 1804 and 1819)
A Good Excuse for Drinking
3265919Sprig of shilela, &c. — A Good Excuse for Drinkingbetween 1804 and 1819

A good Excuse for DRINKING.

UPBRAID me not, capricious fair,
With drinking to excess;.
I should not want to drown despair,
Were your indifference less

Love me, my dear, and you shall find
When this excuse is gone,
That all my bless when Chloe’s kind,
Is fixed on her alone.

The god of wine the victory
To beauty yields with joy;
For Bacchus only drinks like me,
When Ariadne’s coy.


FINIS


This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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