<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529957" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Fill the Bumper Fair</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fill the bumper fair! <br>Every drop we sprinkle <br>O'er the brow of Care <br>Smooths away a wrinkle. <br>Wit's electric flame <br>Ne'er so swiftly passes, <br>As when through the frame <br>It shoots from brimming glasses. <br>Fill the bumper fair! <br>Every drop we sprinkle <br>O'er the brow of Care <br>Smooths away a wrinkle. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sages can, they say, <br>Grasp the lightning's pinions, <br>And bring down its ray <br>From the starr'd dominions: <br>So we, Sages, sit, <br>And, 'mid bumpers brightening, <br>From the Heaven of Wit <br>Draw down all its lightning. <br>Fill the bumper, etc. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wouldst thou know what first <br>Made our souls inherit <br>This ennobling thirst <br>For wine's celestial spirit? <br>It chanced, upon that day, <br>When, as bards inform us, <br>Prometheus stole away <br>The living fires that warm us: <br>Fill the bumper etc. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The careless Youth, when up <br>To Glory's fount aspiring, <br>Took nor urn nor cup <br>To hide the pilfer'd fire in. -- <br>But oh, his joy, when, round <br>The halls of heaven spying, <br>Among the stars he found, <br>The bowl of Bacchus lying! <br>Fill the bumper, etc. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some drops were in that bowl, <br>Remains of last night's pleasure, <br>With which the Sparks of Soul <br>Mix'd their burning treasure. <br>Hence the goblet's shower <br>Hath such spells to win us; <br>Hence its mighty power <br>O'er that flame within us. <br>Fill the bumper fair! <br>Every drop we sprinkle <br>O'er the brow of Care <br>Smooths away a wrinkle.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Moore">Thomas Moore</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=529957" data-title="Fill the Bumper Fair de Thomas Moore" data-description="Fill the bumper fair! Every drop we sprinkle O'er the brow of Care Smooths away a wrinkle. Wit's electric flame Ne'er so swiftly passes, As when through the frame It shoots from brimming glasses. Fill the bumper fair! Every drop we sprink..."></div> </div> </div>

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