"Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter . . ."

“Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter,

Sermons and soda water the day after.

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk;

The best of life is but intoxication:

Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk

The hopes of all men, and of every nation;

Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk

Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion:

But to return--Get very drunk; and when

You wake with head-ache, you shall see what then.”

― George Gordon Byron, Don Juan