Prov. xxiii. 29-34 <br /> <br />Who hath sorrows, who hath foes? <br />Who hath babblings, who hath strife? <br />Causeless wounds, and fancied foes? <br />Redden'd eyes? embitter'd life? <br /> <br /> <br />They that tarry at the wine, <br />They that love the feast and song, <br />They that round the bowl combine, <br />Early haste and tarry long. <br /> <br /> <br />Look not on the wine when red, <br />When it foams and sparkles bright, <br />Lo! it hides an adder's head! <br />Like a serpent will it bite. <br /> <br /> <br />Wantons then will charm the eye, <br />Things perverse thy heart disclose, <br />On the billow shalt thou lie, <br />At the mast-head seek repose. <br /> <br /> <br />'I was stricken,' thou shalt say- <br />'Yet when beaten felt no pain- <br />When shall dawn another day? <br />I will seek it yet again!'<br /><br />John Pierpont<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-effects-of-wine/
