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Ring for your valet—bid him quickly bring

Some hock and soda-water,162 then you'll know

A pleasure worthy Xerxes the great king;

For not the blest sherbet, sublimed with snow,163

Nor the first sparkle of the desert-spring,

Nor Burgundy in all its sunset glow,BY

After long travel, Ennui, Love, or Slaughter,

Vie with that draught of hock and soda-water!