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<h2>LINES</h2>
<h4>ON</h4>
<h2>THE MERMAID TAVERN.</h2>
<span class="i0">Souls of Poets dead and gone,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">What Elysium have ye known,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Happy field or mossy cavern,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Have ye tippled drink more fine<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Than mine host's Canary wine?<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Or are fruits of Paradise<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Sweeter than those dainty pies<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Of venison? O generous food!<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Drest as though bold Robin Hoodan><br/></span>
<span class="i0">Would, with his maid Marian,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Sup and bowse from horn and can.<br/></span>
<span class="i0">I have heard that on a day<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Mine host's sign-board flew away,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Nobody knew whither, till<br/></span>
<span class="i0">An astrologer's old quill<br/></span>
<span class="i0">To a sheepskin gave the story,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Said he saw you in your glory,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Underneath a new old-sign<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Sipping beverage divine,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">And pledging with contented smack<br/></span>
<span class="i0">The Mermaid in the Zodiac.<br/></span>
<span class="i1">Souls of Poets dead and gone,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">What Elysium have ye known,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Happy field or mossy cavern,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?<br/></span>
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