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Nothing in Nature's sober found,
But an eternal health goes round.
Fill up the bowl, then, fill it high,
Fill all the glasses there—for why
Should every creature drink but I?
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Abraham Cowley (1618-1667), British poet. Drinking (l. 15-20). . .
Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose, Vols. I-II. Vol. I: 1600-1660; Vol. II: 16...
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''The thirsty earth soaks up the rain,
And drinks, and gapes for drink again.
The plants suck in the earth, and are
With constant drinking fresh and fair.''
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Abraham Cowley (1618-1667), British essayist, poet. Drinking, Anacreon (1656).
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