With a smack of lip and a cluck of tongue,

Is leakage and leavings—just what haps

From the tun some learned taster taps

With a promise "Prepare your watery chaps!

Here 's properest wine for old and young!

Dispute its perfection—you make us laugh!

Have faith, give thanks, but—quaff!"

Leakage, I say, or—worse—

Leavings suffice pot-valiant souls.

Somebody, brimful, long ago,