Inflamed by drink and going to races,

Faces of men who'd never been

Merry or true or live or clean;

Who'd never felt the boxer's trim

Of brain divinely knit to limb,

Nor felt the whole live body go

One tingling health from top to toe;

Nor took a punch nor given a swing,

But just soaked deady round the ring

Until their brains and bloods were foul