An outline of humor / Being a true chronicle from prehistoric ages to the twentieth century - Unknown

There corks are drawn, and the red vintage flows,

To fill the swelling veins for thee, and now

The ruddy cheek, and now the ruddier nose

Shall tempt thee, as thou flittest round the brow;

And when the hour of sleep its quiet brings,

No angry hand shall rise to brush thy wings.

Fitz-Greene Halleck wrote much in collaboration with Joseph Rodman Drake, and it is often difficult to separate their work.

Fair lady with the bandaged eye!

I’ll pardon all thy scurvy tricks,