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Drunken, museless, awkward, yelling,

Far along his rocky dwelling;

Let us with some comic spell

Teach the yet unteachable.

By all means he must be blinded,

If my counsel be but minded.

Happy thou made odorous

With the dew which sweet grapes weep,

To the village hastening thus,

Seek the vines that soothe to sleep;

Having first embraced thy friend,

Thou in luxury without end,

With the strings of yellow hair,

Of thy voluptuous leman fair,

Shalt sit playing on a bed!—

Speak! what door is openèd?

Ha! ha! ha! I'm full of wine,

Heavy with the joy divine,

With the young feast oversated;

Like a merchant's vessel freighted

To the water's edge, my crop

Is laden to the gullet's top.

The fresh meadow grass of spring

Tempts me forth thus wandering

To my brothers on the mountains,

Who shall share the wine's sweet fountains.

Bring the cask, O stranger, bring!

One with eyes the fairest

Cometh from his dwelling;

Some one loves thee, rarest,

Bright beyond my telling.

In thy grace thou shinest

Like some nymph divinest

In her caverns dewy:—

All delights pursue thee,

Soon pied flowers, sweet-breathing,

Shall thy head be wreathing.

Listen, O Cyclops, for I am well skilled

In Bacchus, whom I gave thee of to drink.

What sort of God is Bacchus then accounted?

The greatest among men for joy of life.

I gulped him down with very great delight.

This is a God who never injures men.

 495 thou ''cj. Swinburne, Rossetti; those 1824; 'the word is doubtful in B.' (Locock'').

500 Thou B.; There 1824.

508 merchant's 1824; merchant B. 