Classic Poem

Interponere tuis interdum gaudia curis,
Ut possis animo quemvis sufferre laborem.

What Cato advises
Most certainly wise is,
Not always to labour, but sometimes to play;
To mingle sweet pleasure
With search after treasure,
Indulging at night for the toils of the day.

And while the dull miser
Esteems himself wiser
His bags to increase, he his youth will decay;
Our souls we enlighten,
Our fancies we brighten,
And pass the long evening in pleasure away.

All cheerful and hearty,
We set aside party,
With some tender fair each bright bumper is crown'd;
Thus Bacchus invites us,
Thus Venus delights us,
While care in an ocean of claret is drown'd.

See, here's our physician,
We know no ambition,
For where there's good wine and good company found,
Thus happy together,
In spite of all weather
'Tis sunshine and summer with us the year round.