04-22-2025, 05:07 PM
According to the words of Jesus, son
of that most prudent scholar Sirach, wine
is just as good as life to humankind,
having been made by God for honest fun.
Yet in all this, the Hasmonean sage
was not original: both Solomon,
the righteous king most cosmopolitan,
and his precursor David ever waged
a war against sobriety untempered
by cups of red or shots of white distilled:
the former, that the dying must be filled
as such; the latter, how the holy shepherd
is worthy to be praised by making glad,
with Martell Cordon Bleu, you and the lads!
of that most prudent scholar Sirach, wine
is just as good as life to humankind,
having been made by God for honest fun.
Yet in all this, the Hasmonean sage
was not original: both Solomon,
the righteous king most cosmopolitan,
and his precursor David ever waged
a war against sobriety untempered
by cups of red or shots of white distilled:
the former, that the dying must be filled
as such; the latter, how the holy shepherd
is worthy to be praised by making glad,
with Martell Cordon Bleu, you and the lads!