Having squelched the noisy frolics Of those wicked alcoholics By prohibiting the liquor that is strong, We shall harry that provoking, Soul-destroying vice of Smoking; For it's pleasant, and what's pleasant must be wrong. When we've censored clothes and dishes And have gratified the wishes Of the Bourgeoisie and Pro-le-tar-i-at For a Puritanic Sunday, We'll extend it over Monday So that everyone may have enough of @3that@1. When we've put in stocks and fetters Sport and Pastime, Art and Letters, And have extirpated jollity and mirth, By an act of legislature We'll abolish Human Nature, And a race of Prigs shall dominate the earth. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ECHO AND SILENCE by SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES THE CORNELIAN by GEORGE GORDON BYRON WHEN DE CO'N PONE'S HOT by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR BEDTIME by FRANCIS ROBERT ST. CLAIR ERSKINE A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 40 by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 1. CANTO 2. PRELUDE: LOVE AT LARGE by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 8. BAUCIS AND PHILEMON by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO |