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life's great feast," they said to me,
 * "The gods serve out the good wine first;

Look to thy cups, drink heartily,
 * In early hour assuage thy thirst."

Not so! Though eagerly I quaffed,
 * Deeming it then well-spiced, good wine,

To me seems now that early draught
 * Of vintage human—this divine!