Beer, Boys, Beer!

Beer, boys, beer! No more absurd restriction,

Courage, Bass, Meux, and Barclay must give way;

Half pints and quarts have vanish’d like a fiction,

Why then, submit to the brewers’ despot sway?

Brown stout of England! much as we may love thee,

(Which, by the way, I rather think we do,)

Pale draught of India, shall they charge us for ye,

Twice what you’re worth, for the profit of a few?