Down in Erebus,

’Twas the detestable Fifty invented it;

The Furies then took it,

To grind and to cook it,

And to Proserpine all these presented it.

If the Mussulman in Asia

Doats on a beverage so unseemly,

I differ with the man extremely.

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There’s a squalid thing called beer:—