E’en grey-beards turn frisky, dance, caper, and laugh,

For what can so fire us, &c.

O wond’rous indeed is this bev’rage ethereal!

The mortal who quaffs it, altho’ a mere clod,

Is straightway transformed to a being ærial,

And moves on earth’s surface in fancy a God.

In a bumper is given

A foretaste of Heaven,

All earthly vexation straight cease to annoy,

Whilst laughing and crying,