Cato's Advice

What Cato advises most certainly wise is,
Not always to labour, but sometimes to play.
To mingle sweet pleasure with thirst after treasure.
Indulging at night for the toils of the day:
And while the dull miser esteems himself wiser
His bags to increase, while his health does decay,
Our souls we enlighten, our fancy we brighten,
And pass the long evenings in pleasure away.

All cheerful and hearty, we set aside party,
With some tender fair the bright bumper is crown'd;
Thus Bacchus invites us, and Venus delights us,
While care in an ocean of claret is drown'd.
See here's our physician,—we know no ambition,
But where there's good wine and good company found;
Thus happy together, in spite of all weather,
'Tis sunshine and summer with us all the year round!