Away with melancholy, <br />Let all our voices ring,- <br />We've given up our folly, <br />So merrily, merrily sing. <br /> <br /> <br />Too long on land and ocean, <br />We've served a tyrant king, <br />Farewell perpetual motion! <br />We merrily, merrily sing. <br /> <br /> <br />Our heads that once were reeling, <br />Now shun the poisoned thing, <br />And hearts once lost to feeling, <br />Now merrily, merrily sing. <br /> <br /> <br />We've raised the Temperance banner, <br />Our bark is on the wing. <br />May favoring breezes fan her, <br />We merrily, merrily sing <br /> <br /> <br />What though some foes assail us,- <br />We do not fear their sting, <br />Our strength shall never fail us, <br />So merrily, merrily sing. <br /> <br /> <br />Then come, ye sober hours, <br />Life's happiest moments bring, <br />Our path is strewn with flowers, <br />So merrily, merrily sing.<br /><br />John Pierpont<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/away-with-melancholy/
