What’s the use of drinkin’?
Well, that ain’t so clear
To my way of thinkin’—
Let us have a beer.
“A Drunk’s Defiance” is a human plea. But Bourke urges the other side still more strongly—“No more verses in praise of wine!”
Shirking the fight that a man should fight,
Dodging the joys that a man should know,
Scorning the breath of a plumed thought’s flight—
Down with the swine and the husks below!
[24] ]’Tis thus we reap from the seeds we sow—