Poem by Thomas Love Peacock

A Glee

Quickly pass the social glass,
Hence with idle sorrow!
No delay---enjoy today,
Think not of tomorrow!
Life at best is but a span,
Let us taste it whilst we can;
Let us still with smiles confess,
All our aim is happiness!

Childish fears, and sighs and tears
Still to us are strangers;
Why destroy the bud of joy
With ideal dangers?
Let the song of pleasure swell;
Care with us shall never dwell;
Let us still with smiles confess,
All our aim is happiness! 

1. Instead of Sitting Wrapped up in Flannel
2. Life's Uncertain Day
3. A Bill for the Better Promotion of Oppression on the Sabbath Day
4. The Round Table or, King Arthur's Feast
5. I Dug, Beneath the Cypress Shade

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