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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk;

The best of Life is but intoxication:

Glory, the Grape, Love, Gold, in these are sunk

The hopes of all men, and of every nation;

Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk

Of Life’s strange tree, so fruitful on occasion!

But to return⁠—Get very drunk, and when

You wake with headache⁠—you shall see what then!