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IN PRAISE OF ALE, by                    
First Line: When the chill charokoe blows
Last Line: O give me ale!
Subject(s): Beer;drinks & Drinking;poetry & Poets; Ale


WHEN the chill Charokoe blows
And winter tells a heavy tale,
When pies and daws, and rooks and crows
Sit cursing of the frosts and snows:
Then give me ale!

Ale in Saxon rumkin then,
Such as will make grimalkin prate,
Bids valour burgeon in tall men
Quickens the poet's wit and pen:
Then give me ale!

Ale that absent battle fights,
And forms the march of Swedish drum,
Disputes with princes, laws and rights;
What's done and past tells mortal wights—
And what's to come.

Ale that the ploughman's heart upkeeps,
And equals it to tyrant's thrones,
That wipes the eye that overweeps,
And lulls in sweet and dainty sleeps
The o'erwearied bones.

Grandchild of Ceres! Bacchus' daughter,
Wine's emulous neighbour, if but stale,
Ennobling all the nymphs of water,
And filling each man's heart with laughter:
O give me ale!





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