Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after

'Tis pity wine should be so deleterious, for tea and coffee leave us much more serious

And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.

But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.