The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Variorum Edition, Franklin, 1998
Emily Dickinson Archive
We - Bee and I - live by the quaffing -'Tis'nt all Hock - with us - Life has it's Ale - But it's many a lay of the Dim Burgundy - We chant - for cheer - when the Wines - fail -Do we "get drunk"? Ask the jolly Clovers! Do we "beat" our "Wife"? I - never wed - Bee - pledges his - in minute flagons -Dainty - as the tress - on her deft Head - While runs the Rhine - He and I - revel - First - at the Vat - and latest at the Vine - Noon - our last Cup -"Found dead" - "of Nectar" - By a humming Coroner - In a By-Thyme!