The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/A Hymn to Bacchus (Bacchus, let me drink no more)

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A Hymn to Bacchus
1898Robert Herrick

304. A HYMN TO BACCHUS.

Bacchus, let me drink no more;
Wild are seas that want a shore.
When our drinking has no stint,
There is no one pleasure in't.
I have drank up, for to please
Thee, that great cup Hercules:
Urge no more, and there shall be
Daffodils given up to thee.