Feast on wine or fast on water, And your honour shall stand sure, God Almighty's son and daughter He the valiant, she the pure; If an angel out of heaven Brings you other things to drink, Thank him for his kind attentions, Go and pour them down the sink. Tea is like the East he grows in, A great yellow Mandarin With urbanity of manner And unconsciousness of sin; All the women, like a harem, At his pig-tail troop along; And, like all the East he grows in, He is Poison when he's strong. Tea, although an Oriental, Is a gentleman at least; Cocoa is a cad and coward, Cocoa is a vulgar beast, Cocoa is a dull, disloyal, Lying, crawling cad and clown, And may very well be grateful To the fool that takes him down. As for all the windy waters, They were rained like tempests down When good drink had been dishonoured By the tipplers of the town; When red wine had brought red ruin And the death-dance of our times, Heaven sent us Soda Water As a torment for our crimes. Who Goes Home? In the city set upon slime and loam They cry in their parliament "Who goes home?" And there comes no answer in arch or dome, For none in the city of graves goes home. Yet these shall perish and understand, For God has pity on this great land. Men that are men again; who goes home? Tocsin and trumpeter! Who goes home? For there's blood on the field and blood on the foam And blood on the body when Man goes home. And a voice valedictory.... Who is for Victory? Who is for Liberty? Who goes home? Printed in Great Britain by UNWIN BROTHERS, LIMITED, PRINTERS, WOKING AND LONDON SOME DELIGHTFUL BOOKS BY G. K. CHESTERTON *CHARLES DICKENS. With 2 Portraits in Photogravure. _Eighth Edition._ Crown 8vo, 6s. A famous book on Dickens which is intended as a general justification of that author. Mr. Chesterton compares the immense achievements produced by the optimism of Dickens in the realm of reform with the small results produced by the pessimistic method of later days. He treats each of the novels in turn, and he devotes the latter part of his book to a general estimate of the influence of Dickens. THE FLYING INN. _Third Edition._ Crown 8vo, 6s. Also Crown 8vo, 2s. net. THE BALLAD OF THE WHITE HORSE. _Fifth Edition._ Fcap. 8vo, 5s. A Ballad of the Reign of King Alfred. It describes that monarch's noble exploits, his character, his struggle with the Danes, the story of the White Horse, and the Battle of Ethandune. LETTERS TO AN OLD GARIBALDIAN. Crown 8vo, 3d. net. ESSAYS Fcap. 8vo. Gilt Top. 5s. each. *ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. _Seventh Edition._ TREMENDOUS TRIFLES. _Fifth Edition._ ALARMS AND DISCURSIONS. _Second Edition._ A MISCELLANY OF MEN. _Second Edition._ * _An edition in cloth, Fcap. 8vo, 1s. net, is also issued._ METHUEN & CO. LTD. LONDON End of Project Gutenberg's Wine, Water, and Song, by Gilbert Keith Chesterton