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A Drunken Man’s Praise of Sobriety



Come swish around my pretty punk

And keep me dancing still

That I may stay a sober man

Although I drink my fill.

Sobriety is a jewel

That I do much adore; 

And therefore keep me dancing

Though drunkards lie and snore.

O mind your feet, O mind your feet,

Keep dancing like a wave,

And under every dancer 

A dead man in his grave.

No ups and downs, my Pretty, 

A mermaid, not a punk; 

A drunkard is a dead man

And all dead men are drunk. 



W.B. Yeats, from New Poems (1938)