Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Henry Carey. 1693?1743445. A Drinking-Song
BACCHUS must now his power resign— | |
I am the only God of Wine! | |
It is not fit the wretch should be | |
In competition set with me, | |
Who can drink ten times more than he. | 5 |
Make a new world, ye powers divine! | |
Stock’d with nothing else but Wine: | |
Let Wine its only product be, | |
Let Wine be earth, and air, and sea— | |
And let that Wine be all for me! | 10 |