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Page 1 of 11939 · PDF PAGE 12
… deaf and dumb, too. I know what last dim oracle Every Panurge is bound to come to. I find more mental bread and cheese In bounty of one brandy bottle Than in all books Averrhoes Once built about his Aristotle. II The babble of my slut, I swear Gives joy and certitudes intenser Than all the wit of a Voltaire And all the science of a Spencer. My poppy-pipeits shows surpass! More and more beautiful and brainier Than all the lumps of Pheidias And all the daubs of de la Peña. III My music and my verse are mine. I know myself and what my task is! B…
1939 · PDF PAGE 9
On bread alone though a man cant thrive, Saint Luke says nothing of brandy; It may be the thing to keep us alive, And I see theres a bottle handy. Open it Bill! Theres only Five. It may be the thing to keep us alive. The Road of Excess, said William Blake, To the Palace of Wisdom leads one; Open a bottle for Wisdoms sake! And I am the boy that needs one. Its a long, long way, but its good to take Open a bottle for Mishter Blake! At the door of Burgess Fish Sauce Shop She stood, oh, how does it go, boys? Well, truly rural will do for t…
1939 · PDF PAGE 8
…o the thing thats right Is as bad as having a funk on; Then why should we wait till Saturday night To get all kinds of a drunk on? With brandy a century old in sight, Why should we wait till Saturday night? If I havent a house on the Grand Parade, Ill build me a hut of wattle. The corkscrew seems to have got mislaid? Then smash the neck of the bottle! Courage and will and a whack will aid, Though the corkscrew seem to have got mislaid. Anatomists say that a single wing Isnt much for a bird to fly on. Theres not much ginger about the spring…