| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Massachusetts Poets. 1922. |
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| A Banquet |
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| | | | | One Memory from Socrates |
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| AFTER the song the love, and after the love the play, | |
| Flute girl and pretty boy blowing | |
| Bubbles of sparkling | |
| Wine into darkling | |
| Beards of a former austerity, stern even now, but fast growing | 5 |
| Foolish, with less of a stately | |
| Reserve that held them sedately. | |
| Oh Zeus, what a sight! With the wine dripping off it, | |
| The grin of an ass on a bald-pated prophet. | |
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| After the feast the night, and after the night the day, | 10 |
| Fool and philosopher stirring | |
| With the day dawning, | |
| Stretching and yawning, | |
| While in each wine-throbbing, desolated brain is the wheeling and whirring | |
| Of thousands of bats, that the slaking | 15 |
| Of throats will not hinder from aching, | |
| No wine for the brow that is beating to bursting, | |
| But water at morning is quench for the thirsting! | |
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