Now bloated with brandy, now reeling with rum,
Now stuffing with whiskey a spanish brown skin-full.
With the fire of the elements raging without,
If the fire of the still is consuming within,
A body of adamant soon must give out,
And the steel-sinew’d laborer soon must give in.
A man had much better be burnt at the stake,
For thus he will finish his troubles much quicker,
Than his own carcase take a blue blaze to make,
And be burning for years with the fire of strong liquor.