When the heart flutters, and the pulse is low;

If once induced these cordial sips to try,

All feel the ease, and few the danger fly;

For, while obtain’d, of drams they’ve all the force,

And when denied, then drams are the resource.

Nor these the only evils - there are those

Who for the troubled mind prepare repose;

They write: the young are tenderly address’d,

Much danger hinted, much concern express’d;

They dwell on freedoms lads are prone to take,