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A Drinking Song by W.B. Yests

Posted on March 4, 2011June 24, 2014 by Every Writer
W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) by George Charles Beresford

A Drinking Song

by W.B. Yests

Wine comes in at the mouth
And love comes in at the eye;
That’s all we shall know for truth
Before we grow old and die.
I lift the glass to my mouth,
I look at you, and I sigh.

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