by John Walcot (1738 - 1819), as Peter Pindar

Anacreontic
Language: English 
Who dares talk of hours?  Seize the bell of that clock;
Seize his hammer, and cut off his hands:
To the bottle, dear bottle, I'll stick like a rock,
And obey only Pleasure's commands. 

Let him strike the short hours, and hint at a bed  -- 
Waiter, bring us more wine  --  what a whim! 
Say, that Time, his old master, for topers was made,
And not jolly topers for him.

Confirmed with The Works of Peter Pindar, Esq., vol. III, London: Walker and Edwards, 1816, page 217.


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