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STEIN WEIN.


To Sam Ward, our Sam Ward; the only original. All others, whether with middle names or not, are impostors.


Why should this wine, so full and fine, be called a wine of stone?
Can any sage explain me this? Has any mortal known?
Is it because the luscious draught a stony heart would move,
And make the miser generous and the misanthrope love?
Or is it that it gives the force and overpowering might

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