Sipped with a fair and festive friend;

And even milk hath flavour, too,

When sun-kissed milkmaids hand it you.

Beer, in a large resounding can,

Befits a coarser type of man,

While some rejoice in spirit pure,

And others in a faked liqueur.

But none of these, nor any wine,

Hath present claim to praise of mine,

Hath e'er produced the gasp and thrill