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Ne'er Talk Of Wisdom's Gloomy Schools. (Mahratta Air.)

By Thomas Moore

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Ne'er talk of Wisdom's gloomy schools;         Give me the sage who's able     To draw his moral thoughts and rules         From the study of the table;--     Who learns how lightly, fleetly pass         This world and all that's in it.     From the bumper that but crowns his glass,         And is gone again next minute!     The diamond sleeps within the mine,         The pearl beneath the water;     While Truth, more precious, dwells in wine.         The grape's own rosy daughter.     And none can prize her charms like him,         Oh, none like him obtain her,     Who thus can, like Leander, swim         Thro' sparkling floods to gain her!

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About Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore (1779–1852) was an Irish poet, singer, and songwriter best known for "Irish Melodies" (1808–1834), a collection of songs including "The Last Rose of Summer" and "Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms." He was the most popular poet of his era in the British Isles.

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