The Devil’s Dictionary by Abrose Bierce

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Hail noble fruit! — by Homer sung, Anacreon and Khayyam; Thy praise is ever on the tongue Of better men than I am.
The lyre in my hand has never swept, The song I cannot offer: My humbler service pray accept — I’ll help to kill the scoffer. The water-drinkers and the cranks Who load their skins with liquor — I’ll gladly bear their belly-tanks And tap them with my sticker.
Fill up, fill up, for wisdom cools When e’er we let the wine rest. Here’s death to Prohibition’s fools, And every kind of vine-pest!
Jamrach Holobom
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