Home > Authors Index > Browse all available works of Oliver Wendell Holmes > Text of Ode For A Social Meeting With Slight Alterations By A Teetotaler
A poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes |
||
Ode For A Social Meeting With Slight Alterations By A Teetotaler |
||
________________________________________________
Title: Ode For A Social Meeting With Slight Alterations By A Teetotaler Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes [More Titles by Holmes] WITH SLIGHT ALTERATIONS BY A TEETOTALER--(...) COME! fill a fresh bumper, for why should we go The purple-globed clusters (half-ripened apples) their life-dews have bled; Then a smile (scowl) and a glass (howl) and a toast (scoff) and a cheer (sneer); [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |