• I TASTE a liquor never brewed,

    From tankards scooped in pearl;

    Not all the vats upon the Rhine

    Yield such an alcohol!


    Inebriate of air am I,

    And debauchee of dew,...

  • Would you like summer? Taste of ours.

    Spices? Buy here!

    Ill! We have berries, for the parching!

    Weary! Furloughs of down!

    Perplexed! Estates of violet trouble ne'er looked on!

    Captive! We bring reprieve of roses!

    Fainting! Flasks of air!

    Even for Death, a fairy medicine.

    But,...