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CHAMPAGNE,
Delicious,effervescent,cold champagne.
Imprisoned sunshine,glorious and bright,
How many virtues in thy charm unite?
Who from thy tempting witchery can abstain?
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IRISH WHISKY.
Thou bring'st out finely the old Celtic glee.
Yarns,jokes and glorious bulls surpassed by none,
Side-splitting stories,funny when begun.
And at the end one royal mental spree.
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COFFEE.
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Voluptuous berryI where may mortals find
Nectars divine that can with thee compare,
When,having dined,we sip thy essence rare,
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And feel toward wit and repartee inclined?
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TEA.
By thee the tired and torpid mind conceives.
Fairer than roses brightening life's gloom.
Thy protean charm can every form assume
And turns December nights to April eves.
—Francis Saltus,
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That which is called firmness in a king is called obstinacy
in a donkey.—LordKrskiiie.
"Time eateth all things,could old poets say.
The times are changed,our times drink all away."
Seldom write, never burn,a letter.