"Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit."
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"Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd Of the Two Worlds so wisely - they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn Are scattered, and their mouths are stopped with Dust."
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"And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling cooped we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help-for it As impotently moves as you or I"
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"The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell."
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"Drink! For you know not whence you came nor why."
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"A Moment's Halt-a momentary taste Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste- And, Lo! the phantom Caravan has reach'd The NOTHING it set out from. Oh, make haste!"
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"Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!"
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"Into this universe, and why not knowing Nor whence, like water willy-nilly flowing; And out of it, as wind along the wate, I know not whither, willy-nilly blowing."
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"By Fate full many a heart has been undone, And many a sprightly rose made woe-begone; Plume thee not on thy lusty youth and strength: Full many a bud is blasted ere its bloom."
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"This clay, so strong of heart, of sense so fine,Surely such clay is more than half divine--'Tis only fools speak evil of the clay,The very stars are made of clay like mine."
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"I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell."
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"So when that Angel of the darker Drink, at last shall find you by the river-brink, And, offering his Cup, invite your Soul forth to your Lips to quaff-you shall not shrink."
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"A drink is shorter than a tale"
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"Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blackened - Man's forgiveness give and take!"
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"Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youths sweet-scented Manuscript should close!"
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