Why water more wine in the great bowl?Why do you drown your gullet in grape?I cannot let you spill out your life on song and drink. Let us go to sea,and not let the wintry calm of morningslip by as a drunken sleep. Had weboarded at dawn, seized rudder and spunthe flapping crossjack into the wind,we would be happy now, happy as swimming in grape. But you draped a lazy armon my shoulder, saying: 'Sir, a pillow,your singing does not lead me to ships'.
-Alkaios
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