If our own life is the life of a flower
(And that’s what some sages are thinking),
We should moisten the bud with a health-giving flood
And ’twill bloom all the sweeter–
Yes, life’s the completer
For drinking,
and drinking,
and drinking.
If it be that our life is a journey
(As many wise folk are opining),
We should sprinkle the way with the rain while we may;
Though dusty and dreary,
‘Tis made cool and cheery
With wining,
and wining,
and wining.
If this life that we live be a dreaming
(As pessimist people are thinking),
To induce pleasant dreams there is nothing, meseems,
Like this sweet prescription,
That baffles description–
This drinking,
and drinking,
and drinking.
(Eugene Field)
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