Having squelched the noisy frolics Of those wicked alcoholics By prohibiting the liquor that is strong, We shall harry that provoking, Soul-destroying vice of Smoking; For it's pleasant, and what's pleasant must be wrong. When we've censored clothes and dishes And have gratified the wishes Of the Bourgeoisie and Pro-le-tar-i-at For a Puritanic Sunday, We'll extend it over Monday So that everyone may have enough of @3that@1. When we've put in stocks and fetters Sport and Pastime, Art and Letters, And have extirpated jollity and mirth, By an act of legislature We'll abolish Human Nature, And a race of Prigs shall dominate the earth. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OVID, OLD BUDDY, I WOULD DISCOURSE WITH YOU A WHILE by HAYDEN CARRUTH SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: IMANUEL EHRENHARDT by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE HERETIC: 2. IRONY by LOUIS UNTERMEYER BEPPO: A VENETIAN STORY by GEORGE GORDON BYRON ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD by THOMAS GRAY THE AGED STRANGER; AN INCIDENT OF THE WAR by FRANCIS BRET HARTE EVENING SONG OF THE TYROLESE PEASANTS by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS |