222. A HYMN TO BACCHUS

Bacchus, let me drink no more!

Wild are seas that want a shore!

When our drinking has no stint,

There is no one pleasure in't.

I have drank up for to please

Thee, that great cup, Hercules.

Urge no more; and there shall be

Daffadils giv'n up to thee.

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