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A Bacchanalian Verse

by Robert Herrick, 1648

Fill me a mighty bowl
  Up to the brim,
  That I may drink
Unto my Jonson’s soul.

Crown it again, again;
  And thrice repeat
  That happy heat,
To drink to thee, my Ben.

Well I can quaff, I see,
  To th’ number five
  Or nine; but thrive
In frenzy ne’er like thee.

Published in Hesperides
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