✦ A Poem Served Instead of an Ad ✦
Go, join thy brothers on yon sunny board,
And rapture to thy family afford--
There wilt thou meet a mistress, or a wife,
That saw thee drunk, drop senseless in the stream.
Who gave, perhaps, the wide-resounding scream,
And now sits groaning for thy precious life.
The Book of Humorous Verse, ed. Carolyn Wells (Public Domain)