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 * So many, and so many, and such glee?
 * Why have ye left your forest haunts, why left
 * Your nuts in oak-tree cleft?
 * 'For wine, for wine we left our kernel tree;
 * For wine we left our heath, and yellow brooms,
 * And cold mushrooms;
 * For wine we follow Bacchus through the earth;
 * Great god of breathless cups and chirping mirth!
 * Come hither, lady fair, and joined be
 * To our mad minstrelsy!'


 * "Over wide streams and mountains great we went,
 * And, save when Bacchus kept his ivy tent,
 * Onward the tiger and the leopard pants,
 * With Asian elephants:
 * Onward these myriads—with song and dance,
 * With zebras striped, and sleek Arabians' prance,
 * Web-footed alligators, crocodiles,
 * Bearing upon their scaly backs, in files,
 * Plump infant laughers mimicking the coil
 * Of seamen, and stout galley-rowers' toil:
 * With toying oars and silken sails they glide,
 * Nor care for wind and tide.


 * "Mounted on panthers' furs and lions' manes,
 * From rear to van they scour about the plains;
 * A three days' journey in a moment done;
 * And always, at the rising of the sun,
 * About the wilds they hunt with spear and horn,
 * On spleenful unicorn.