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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=418817" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Reckoning</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">LEADER.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LET no cares now hover o'er us</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let the wine unsparing run!<br>Wilt thou swell our merry chorus?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hast thou all thy duty done?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">SOLO.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Two young folks--the thing is curious--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Loved each other; yesterday<br>Both quite mild, to-day quite furious,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Next day, quite the deuce to pay!<br>If her neck she there was stooping,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He must here needs pull his hair.<br>I revived their spirits drooping,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And they're now a happy pair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">CHORUS.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Surely we for wine may languish!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let the bumper then go round!<br>For all sighs and groans of anguish</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou to-day in joy hast drown'd.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">SOLO.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why, young orphan, all this wailing?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Would to heaven that I were dead!<br>For my guardian's craft prevailing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Soon will make me beg my bread.&quot;<br>Knowing well the rascal genus,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Into court I dragg'd the knave;<br>Fair the judges were between us,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the maiden's wealth did save.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">CHORUS.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Surely we for wine may languish!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let the bumper then go round!<br>For all sighs and groans of anguish</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou to-day in joy hast drown'd.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">SOLO.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To a little fellow, quiet,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unpretending and subdued,<br>Has a big clown, running riot,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Been to-day extremely rude.<br>I bethought me of my duty,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And my courage swell'd apace,<br>So I spoil'd the rascal's beauty,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Slashing him across the face.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">CHORUS.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Surely we for wine may languish!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let the bumper then go round!<br>For all sighs and groans of anguish</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou to-day in joy hast drown'd.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">SOLO.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Brief must be my explanation,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I really have done nought.<br>Free from trouble and vexation,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I a landlord's business bought.<br>There I've done, with all due ardour,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All that duty order'd me;<br>Each one ask'd me for the larder,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And there was no scarcity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">CHORUS.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Surely we for wine may languish!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let the bumper then go round!<br>For all sighs and groans of anguish</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou to-day in joy hast drown'd.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LEADER.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Each should thus make proclamation</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of what he did well to-day!<br>That's the match whose conflagration</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Should inflame our tuneful lay.<br>Let it be our precept ever</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To admit no waverer here!<br>For to act the good endeavour,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">None but rascals meek appear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">CHORUS.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Surely we for wine may languish!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let the bumper then go round!<br>For all sighs and groans of anguish</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We have now in rapture drown'd.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">TRIO.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let each merry minstrel enter,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He's right welcome to our hall!<br>'Tis but with the selfÄtormentor</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That we are not liberal;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For we fear that his caprices,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That his eye-brows dark and sad,<br>That his grief that never ceases</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hide an empty heart, or bad.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">CHORUS.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No one now for wine shall languish!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here no minstrel shall be found,<br>Who all sighs and groans of anguish,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Has not first in rapture drown'd!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a 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LET no cares now hover o'er us

Let the wine unsparing run!
Wilt thou swell our merry chorus?

Hast thou all thy duty done?

SOLO.

Two young folks--the thing is curious--

Loved each other; yesterday
Both quite mild, to-day quite furious..."></div>
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