A Drinking Song

Wine comes in at the mouth

And love comes in at the eye;

That’s all we shall know for truth

Before we grow old and die.

I lift the glass to my mouth,

I look at you, and I sigh.

William Butler Yeats, "A Drinking Song" from Responsibilities and Other Poems. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916. Public Domain.

Source: Responsibilities and Other Poems (The Macmillan Company, 1916)

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