Drinking Versus Thinking

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Title:     Drinking Versus Thinking
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge [More Titles by Coleridge]

DRINKING VERSUS THINKING
OR, A SONG AGAINST THE NEW PHILOSOPHY

My Merry men all, that drink with glee
This fanciful Philosophy,
Pray tell me what good is it?
If _antient Nick_ should come and take,
The same across the Stygian Lake,
I guess we ne'er should miss it.

Away, each pale, self-brooding spark
That goes truth-hunting in the dark,
Away from our carousing!
To Pallas we resign such fowls--
Grave birds of wisdom! ye're but owls,
And all your trade but _mousing_!

My merry men all, here's punch and wine,
And spicy bishop, drink divine!
Let's live while we are able.
While Mirth and Sense sit, hand in glove,
This Don Philosophy we'll shove
Dead drunk beneath the table!

[The end]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem: Drinking Versus Thinking

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