DRINK to-day, and drown all sorrow,
You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.
Best, while you have it, use your breath;
There is no drinking after death.
Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit;
There is no cure 'gainst age but it.
It helps the headache, cough, and tisic,
And is for all diseases physic.
Then let us swill, boys, for our health;
Who drinks well, loves the commmonwealth.
And he that will to bed go sober,
Falls with the leaf still in October.
Drinking Song
John Fletcher
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Poem topics: breath, death, heart, october, sorrow, health, drink, tomorrow, Valentine's Day, I love you, I miss you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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