Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter,Sermons and soda water the day after.Man, being reasonable, must get drunk;The best of life is but intoxication:Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunkThe hopes of all men, and of every nation;Without their sap, how branchless were the trunkOf life’s strange tree, so fruitful on occasion:But to return–Get very drunk; and whenYou wake with head-ache, you shall see what then.

Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter,Sermons and soda water the day after.Man, being reasonable, must get drunk;The best of life is but intoxication:Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunkThe hopes of all men, and of every nation;Without their sap, how branchless were the trunkOf life’s strange tree, so fruitful on occasion:But to return–Get very drunk; and whenYou wake with head-ache, you shall see what then.

– George Gordon Byron –

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