Feast on wine or fast on water <br />And your honour shall stand sure, <br />God Almighty's son and daughter <br />He the valiant, she the pure; <br />If an angel out of heaven <br />Brings you other things to drink, <br />Thank him for his kind attentions, <br />Go and pour them down the sink. <br /> <br />Tea is like the East he grows in, <br />A great yellow Mandarin <br />With urbanity of manner <br />And unconsciousness of sin; <br />All the women, like a harem, <br />At his pig-tail troop along; <br />And, like all the East he grows in, <br />He is Poison when he's strong. <br /> <br />Tea, although an Oriental, <br />Is a gentleman at least; <br />Cocoa is a cad and coward, <br />Cocoa is a vulgar beast, <br />Cocoa is a dull, disloyal, <br />Lying, crawling cad and clown, <br />And may very well be grateful <br />To the fool that takes him down. <br /> <br />As for all the windy waters, <br />They were rained like tempests down <br />When good drink had been dishonoured <br />By the tipplers of the town; <br />When red wine had brought red ruin <br />And the death-dance of our times, <br />Heaven sent us Soda Water <br />As a torment for our crimes.<br /><br />Gilbert Keith Chesterton<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-song-of-right-and-wrong-2/
