Wine, Water, and Song

by G. K. Chesterton

He set up a spear—and the Saracen's Head.

But “The Saracen's Head” outlived the Kings,

It thought and it thought of most horrible things,

Of Health and of Soap and of Standard Bread,

And of Saracen drinks at “The Saracen's Head.”

So “The Saracen's Head” fulfils its name,

They drink no wine—a ridiculous game—

And I shall wonder until I'm dead,

How it ever came into the Saracen's Head.