Don Juan 02-179
Canto the Second

CLXXIX

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk;
     The best of life is but intoxication:
Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk
     The hopes of all men, and of every nation;
Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk
     Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion:
But to return,-Get very drunk; and when
You wake with headache, you shall see what then.

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) ByronLong