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First Line: Thou ever youthful god of wine
Last Line: It makes, and yet mars many a score.
Subject(s): Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Ale; Wine


THOU ever youthful god of wine,
Whose burnish'd cheeks with rubies shine,
Thy brows with ivy chaplets crown'd;
We dare thee here to pledge around.
Thy wanton grapes we do detest;
Here's richer juice from barley press'd.

Let not the Muses vainly tell,
What virtue's in the horse-hoof well,
That scarce one drop of good blood breeds,
But with mere inspiration feeds:
Oh let them come and taste this beer,
And water henceforth they'll forswear.

If that the Paracelsian crew
The virtues of this liquor knew,
Their endless toils they would give o'er,
And never use extractions more.
'Tis medicine; meat for young and old;
Elixir; blood of tortur'd gold.

It is sublim'd; it's calcinate;
'Tis rectified; precipitate;
It is Androgena, Sol's wife;
It is the Mercury of life;
It is the quintessence of malt;
And they that drink it want no salt.

It heals, it hurts; it cures, it kills;
Men's heads with proclamations fills;
It makes some dumb, and others speak;
Strong vessels hold, and crack'd ones leak;
It makes some rich, and others poor;
It makes, and yet mars many a score.





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