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First Line: Wine cheers our hearts, and makes us glad
Last Line: Till we our freedom get by sleep.
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine


WINE cheers our hearts, and makes us glad,
When Grief and Cares have left us sad:
But more than Nature does suffice,
Will cast a cloud before our eyes;

'Twill bind the tongue, the feet, and hands,
Ere we perceive, with strongest bands;
And us its drunken slaves will keep,
Till we our freedom get by Sleep.





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