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The Bibelot
VOLUME I
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From The Bibelot, A Reprint of Poetry and Prose for Book Lovers, chosen in part from scarce editions and sources not generally known, Volume I, Number III, Testimonial Edition, Edited and Originally Published by Thomas B. Mosher, Portland, Maine; Wm. Wise & Co.; New York; 1895; pp. 78-9.
“Next to spring and love, our students set their affections principally on the tavern and the wine-bowl. . . . Several of the best anacreontics of the period are . . . . distinctly parodies. One panegyric of wine . . . is modelled upon a hymn to the Virgin. Another, regarding the date of which I have no information, is an imitation of a well-known Christmas Carol. ”
IN dulci jubilo
Sing we, make merry so!
Since our heart’s pleasure
Latet in poculo,
Drawn from the cask, good measure,
Pro hoc convivio,
Nunc, nunc bibito!
O crater parvule!
How my soul yearns for thee!
Make me now merry,
O potus optime,
Claret or hock or sherry!
Et vos concinite:
Vivant socii!
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O vini caritas!
O Bacchi lenitas!
We’ve drained our purses
Per multa pocula:
Yet hope we for new mercies,
Nummorum gaudia:
Would that we had them, ah!
Ubi sunt gaudia? where,
If that they be not there?
There the lads are singing
Selecta cantica:
There are glasses ringing
In villae curia;
Oh, would that we were there!