And what's beyond is but a shadowy guess.

"All, all is vanity," the preacher sighs;

And in this world what has more right than

Wrong?

Come! let us hush remembrance with a song,

And learn with folly to be glad and wise.

III

There was a poet of the East named Hâfiz,

Who sang of wine and beauty. Let us go

Praising them, too. And where good wine to quaff is