Friday, July 09, 2010
My Faith
James Henry, Menippea (Dresden: C.C. Meinhold & Sons, 1866), p. 149:
Frans Hals, The Merry Toper
Édouard Manet, Le Bon Bock
Charles Spencelayh, Good Health
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Here's my faith, my chapel here,
In this foaming pot of beer;
Here I'll live and here I'll die,
These true words my elegy:
Whilst he lived he was a man;
Whilst he lived he loved his can;
Now he's dead and drinks no more,
On that sad and sober shore,
Stranger, go and do as he
Living did, and merry be,
Drinking every day thy can,
A rosy, fat, kind-hearted man.
