A Draught Of Sunshine

Hence Burgundy, Claret, and Port,     Away with old Hock and madeira,     Too earthly ye are for my sport;     There's a beverage brighter and clearer.     Instead of a piriful rummer,     My wine overbrims a whole summer;     My bowl is the sky,     And I drink at my eye,     Till I feel in the brain     A Delphian pain     Then follow, my Caius! then follow:     On the green of the hill     We will drink our fill     Of golden sunshine,     Till our brains intertwine     With the glory and grace of Apollo!     God of the Meridian,     And of the East and West,     To thee my soul is flown,     And my body is earthward press'd.     It is an awful mission,     A terrible division;     And leaves a gulph austere     To be fill'd with worldly fear.     Aye, when the soul is fled     To high above our head,     Affrighted do we gaze     After its airy maze,     As doth a mother wild,     When her young infant child     Is in an eagle's claws     And is not this the cause     Of madness? God of Song,     Thou bearest me along     Through sights I scarce can bear:     O let me, let me share     With the hot lyre and thee,     The staid Philosophy.     Temper my lonely hours,     And let me see thy bowers     More unalarm'd!