A HYMN TO BACCHUS

Portrait of Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick 1591–1674

Bacchus, let me drink no more! Wild are seas that want a shore! When our drinking has no stint, There is no one pleasure in't. I have drank up for to please Thee, that great cup, Hercules. Urge no more; and there shall be Daffadils giv'n up to thee.

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