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THE QUATRAINS OF
396.
"Take up thy cup and goblet, Love," I said,
"Haunt purling river bank, and grassy glade;
Eull many a moon-like form has heaven's wbeel
Oft into cup, oft into goblet, made!"
397.
We buy new wine and old, our cups to fill,
And sell for two grains this world's good and ill;
Know you where you will go to after death?
Set wine before me, and go where you will!
398.
Was e'er man born who never went astray?
Did ever mortal pass a sinless day?
If I do ill, do not requite with ill!
Evil for evil how can'st Thou repay?
396. C. L. N. A. B. I. J.
397. L. N . . . . C. A. I. and J. give lines 1 and 2 differently.
