Chapter 3 Poetry

 

 For those interested in historical poetry.

 

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk;
The best of life is but intoxication.
Byron: Don Juan more

 

 Before the Romans came to Rye or out to Severn strode,
The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.
Chesterton: The Rolling English Road  more

 

 

 Fear mo ghaoil an t-uisge beatha
(A man of my heart is whisky)
Lachlan MacPherson of Strathmasie: The Whisky Bard

 

"As the song Comunn an uisge-beatha by Lachlan Macpherson of Strathmashie begins, and confirms the high regard which the Gaels held for the Water of Life, from antiquity through to modern times: "Fear mo ghaoil an t uisge-bheatha" (Whisky is the one I love)" 

 

source  A different Macpherson

 

 

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