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Could man be drunk for ever With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning And lief lie down of nights.
But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts.
Could Man Be Drunk Forever
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It seems to me the last line referes to control which is not normally what the phrase means. I'd like to know what other readers feel. I refer to the poem of Hausmanb Could Man Be drunk Forever