Tixall Poetry/A Song for Drinking

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Tixall Poetry
edited by Arthur Clifford
A Song for Drinking by unknown author
4302762Tixall PoetryA Song for DrinkingArthur Cliffordunknown author

A Song for Drinking.


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.