And Common Sense and Letterwriting,
Who one time, for his “stomach’s sake,”
Bade Timothy the wine cup take;
Stay now this Water Fiend’s advance
And save thy servant Temperance,
Ere Abstinence, that glum wet-nurse
Of Dire Dyspepsia, Chills, and worse,
Blow out the Lights of Love and Mirth,
And so asphyxiate the Earth.