<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391053" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To A Jar Of Wine</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O gracious jar,--my friend, my twin,<br>Born at the time when I was born,--<br>Whether tomfoolery you inspire<br>Or animate with love's desire,<br>Or flame the soul with bitter scorn,<br>Or lull to sleep, O jar of mine!<br>Come from your place this festal day;<br>Corvinus hither wends his way,<br>And there's demand for wine!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Corvinus is the sort of man<br>Who dotes on tedious argument.<br>An advocate, his ponderous pate<br>Is full of Blackstone and of Kent;<br>Yet not insensible is he,<br>O genial Massic flood! to thee.<br>Why, even Cato used to take<br>A modest, surreptitious nip<br>At meal-times for his stomach's sake,<br>Or to forefend la grippe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How dost thou melt the stoniest hearts,<br>And bare the cruel knave's design;<br>How through thy fascinating arts<br>We discount Hope, O gracious wine!<br>And passing rich the poor man feels<br>As through his veins thy affluence steals.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, prithee, make us frisk and sing,<br>And plot full many a naughty plot<br>With damsels fair--nor shall we care<br>Whether school keeps or not!<br>And whilst thy charms hold out to burn<br>We shall not deign to go to bed,<br>But we shall paint creation red;<br>So, fill, sweet wine, this friend of mine,--<br>My lawyer friend, as aforesaid.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Eugene+Field">Eugene Field</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391053" data-title="To A Jar Of Wine de Eugene Field" data-description="O gracious jar,--my friend, my twin, Born at the time when I was born,-- Whether tomfoolery you inspire Or animate with love's desire, Or flame the soul with bitter scorn, Or lull to sleep, O jar of mine! Come from your place this festal day; Corv..."></div> </div> </div>

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