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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NEXT MORNING, by HENRY CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL
First Line: If some one's head's not very bright
Last Line: I'd better ring and ask the waiter.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pennell, Henry Cholmondeley
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Hangovers; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse
First Line: If some one's head's not very bright
Last Line: I'd better ring and ask the waiter.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pennell, Henry Cholmondeley
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Hangovers; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse
If some one's head's not very bright,
At least the owner bears no malice.
Who was it pulled my nose last night,
And begged an interview at Calais?
The quarrel was not much, I think,
For such a deadly arbitration:
Some joke about the missing link—
And all the rest inebriation.
In vino veritas! which means
A man's a very ass in liquor;
The "thief that slowly steals our brains"
Makes nothing but the temper quicker.
Next morning brings a train of woes,
But finds the passions much sedater. ...
Who was it, now, that pulled my nose?—
I'd better ring and ask the waiter.
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