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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BEER, by FLAVIUS CLAUDIUS JULIANUS
First Line: Can this be dionysus? How the deuce!
Last Line: In fact, a cereal.
Alternate Author Name(s): Julian The Apostate
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine
First Line: Can this be dionysus? How the deuce!
Last Line: In fact, a cereal.
Alternate Author Name(s): Julian The Apostate
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine
CAN this be Dionysus? How the deuce!
Now, by the very Bacchus, in this guise
We do not recognize
The son of Zeus.
How came this goat-reek? Wine is nectar-scented.
The Celt from barley-tops, so We suppose,
For want of grapes and nose,
This brew invented.
Beer is no scion of the God etherial,
No son of Semele to the lightning born,
But plain John Barleycorn,
In fact, a Cereal.
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