Feast on wine or fast on water
\nAnd your honour shall stand sure,
\nGod Almighty’s son and daughter
\nHe the valiant, she the pure;
\nIf an angel out of heaven
\nBrings you other things to drink,
\nThank him for his kind attentions,
\nGo and pour them down the sink.<\/p>\n
Tea is like the East he grows in,
\nA great yellow Mandarin
\nWith urbanity of manner
\nAnd unconsciousness of sin;
\nAll the women, like a harem,
\nAt his pig-tail troop along;
\nAnd, like all the East he grows in,
\nHe is Poison when he’s strong.<\/p>\n
Tea, although an Oriental,
\nIs a gentleman at least;
\nCocoa is a cad and coward,
\nCocoa is a vulgar beast,
\nCocoa is a dull, disloyal,
\nLying, crawling cad and clown,
\nAnd may very well be grateful
\nTo the fool that takes him down.<\/p>\n
As for all the windy waters,
\nThey were rained like tempests down
\nWhen good drink had been dishonoured
\nBy the tipplers of the town;
\nWhen red wine had brought red ruin
\nAnd the death-dance of our times,
\nHeaven sent us Soda Water
\nAs a torment for our crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The poem that got Chesterton fired from The Daily News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[1143,242],"class_list":["post-6408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-poet","tag-poem","tag-poetry"],"yoast_head":"\n