Dash dumb that Punch’s impious shine!
Shirley Brooks, 1856.
In Vino Veritas.
The wines of Greece! the wines of Greece!
(T’was thus a Shambro’ merchant sung)
It gives the tortured mind no peace,
To think that Britons, old and young,
Their Port and Sherry can forget,
For Santorin, or mount Hymett.