Fill with mingled
cream and
amber,
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious
visions clamber
Through the chamber of my
brain--
Quaintest thoughts--
queerest fancies
Come to life and fade away;
What care I how
time advances?
I am drinking
ale today.
--Edgar Allan Poe
(Though to have been written at Washington Tavern in Lowell, Massachusetts, where it hung on the saloon wall until about 1920)