The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-02-22

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Omar RhdgyG8
Wine, Joyous wine. who would not hymn thy praises
In gratitude for thy all potent aid
Thy cheering chaliee every heart upralses,
Raising the beggar to a kingly grade;
Teaching the rhymer's tongue unwonted phrases,
When Pegasus is like to prove jade;
But stay-'tis wrong to dub thee royal-doubly can
Thy claim be proved to properties republican,
Rosy or amber, sparkling. too, or still.
Thou standest In no need OF votAries
Since serpent cinctured MOnads worked thy will
On orpheus, who dared thy cultgdesPlse,
Or since Semitic Noah drank his iii
To reproduce his dreams of PAradisei
Mankind is still the same. when cares attack Us,
RS ten to one we prove our faith in Bacchus
lis wiser, sure, to make the best of Fate,
Creating life one dolce far nieTte;
With wine anS song and Jest you close the gate
On nineteen troubles out OF every twenty.
Why should our ears be stunned, early aud late,
With that most dismal Of all cries. Repent We I"
Why then assume voluntary clogf
Is wine forbidden. by the Decaloguei
From old Anacreon down to Thomas Moore,
Thy praises have been sung. Why not to day?
This generation has not grown so pure
That truth should not be spoken so say
Thy worship lives yet, and IL shall ""'a'--~
--...lI curtain rails upon the play.
Man still is fallIble; when sorrows sadden, he
Seeks consolation did Ariadne.
Is II worth while 10 pen o bitter truth
To tell folks what is little to their credit
You get your trouble for your pains, forsooth,
No matter whether men derde or dread It,
From sour Grabbed age to callow youth
1t shames them even to admit they read 1t.
Fashion saws thought is new beneath the SUM-"
| And said 1t years before King Solomon.
Win g is a mocL eri" Who Is there believes IL
BrpertO crede; 'Tis faE otherwise.
Prover5ial philosophy receives it
! As Solomon's wisdon-does It reach the wise p
The high-tossed wave of modern knowledge heaves
High on the beach of stark Silurian lies.
Figure Sofa conversation after supper
A pestilent. malignant. Martin Tupperl
If wine bring out mans bad qualities,
Let him drink on-for should they not come QUIT
Wine ne'er begot o coward, no 1t flies
In his head. and, willy-nilly, he grows stout
1t strikes the mean mans pocket, and the size
or his donation grows and grows ithout
The stimulus Of baser argument
Than that Of grand old Bacchus, HeaVen-sent
The rich Falernian rarely CROWNS my table.
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-Of course drink the better, were able
The humble bard lives in an humble cabin.
No mansion mine to tower aloft like Babel,
Just big enough TO entertain Queen Nab in
An epicure I'd wish to live and die
AS did Omar Khayyam and Hatim Tai.
How prone our present age to sefdeceit
Conscience indeed can surely not enjoy her
Hoodwinked position: insecure her seat,
l n A.
My iailer, man, dares not in his concelt
Deceive his doctor or mislead his lawyer
Then verify it seems to me damned odd
He juggles with the being he terms his God
The grand old honesty is lost, fear,
, Our strong old language, too, is out Of date;
, The coarseness Of the Bible shocks our ear
, Our forefathers were so indicate
OF Rabeais (save by stealth) we dare not hear,
While Swift and Shakespeare emasculate,
With honesty by pruderY outweghed
OF course we cannot call a spade a spade
". J. Carr, IN s. r. Merchant,