So sadness, after all, is but joy deferred. A MUSTER CHAUNT FOR THE MEMBERS OF THE TEMPERANCE SOCIETIES. Wine! wine! fill up The sparkling cup With champagne hissing to the brim; For wit, and joy, and rapture, swim In bumpers. The grape's blood is mine; I'll steep my heart in it till it shine With the warm flush The purple blush Of wine! Wine! wine! the frown Of Care we'll drown In deep libations to the God Who planted first on Nysa's sod The branches of the illustrious vine. Bacchus, we worship at thy shrine! In Pleasure's bowers Swift fly the Hours Whose wings are wash'd with wine! Wine! wine! the brow Is mantling now; The eye is flashing with "the flow Of soul," the cheek has caught its glow; The lips are breathing words divine, While wreaths of song around them twine In glorious lays, Chaunting the praise Of racy wine! Wine! wine! fill up And quaff the cup To lovely woman! Drink again To all bold festive souls who drain The crystal bowl, and wear the sign Of bacchanals. Hurrah! we're there, Thou soul of joy! Immortal boy! God of immortal wine! REMAINS OF HAJJI BABA. CHAPTER IX. I alighted with my friend at the caravanserai where the coach had stopped, and there he advised me to put up for the night, promising to come on the following morning to assist me in procuring a lodging. "But first tell me," said I, "who are the two persons who were so violently opposed to each other." "The fair man," said he, "is one of our _omrahs_ or lords; the other is one of the middle ranks, who has made himself conspicuous by advocating the cause of the people. Our whole country is principally divided into two factions, holding their opinions. There is also a moderate set who do not partake of their violence, but unfortunately their voice is not sufficiently heard. But we will talk more upon these matters again," said he, and then left me. The next day he came, and without much difficulty succeeded in settling me in a lodging, where I found everything prepared to receive me, as well as if the Shah's chief tent-pitcher had preceded me to give the requisite orders. The English habits, which I had acquired when here before in the days of our embassy, returned as fast as I recognised the objects which before had been familiar to my sight, but which had been much obliterated by my absence in Persia. I again sat upon chairs instead of my heels; again I ate with knives and forks instead of my fingers; and once more I found myself called upon to walk about upon my own legs with the activity of a Franc, instead of making use of a horse to take me daily to attend the Shah's selam, or to sit at the Royal Gate in attendance upon the Grand Vizier.