toper quotes

  • Lo! the poor toper whose untutored sense, Sees bliss in ale, and can with wine dispense; Whose head proud fancy never taught to steer, Beyond the muddy ecstasies of beer.

    - George Crabbe
      Inebriety, a Poem, pt.1, l.132^5.

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