Tixall Poetry/A Song for Drinking

by unknown author

For other versions of this work, see The Fairies' Song.

A Song for Drinking.

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Would you be a man of fashion?
Would you lead a life divine?
Take a little dram of passion,
In a lusty dose of wine.

If the nymph have no compassion,
Vain it is to sigh and grone,
Love was but put in for fashion,
Wine will doe the worke alone.