Anacreontic [Press the grape, and let it pour]

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Title:     Anacreontic [Press the grape, and let it pour]
Author: Thomas Moore [More Titles by Moore]

--_in lachrymas verterat omne merum_.
TIB. lib. i. eleg. 5.

Press the grape, and let it pour
Around the board its purple shower:
And, while the drops my goblet steep,
I'll think in woe the clusters weep.

Weep on, weep on, my pouting vine!
Heaven grant no tears, but tears of wine.
Weep on; and, as thy sorrows flow,
I'll taste the luxury of woe.

[The end]
Thomas Moore's poem: Anacreontic

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