It is the hour to be drunken! Be drunken, if you would not be mart

It is the hour to be drunken! Be drunken, if you would not be martyred slaves of Time; be drunken continually! With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. – Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), “Be Drunken,” translated from French by Arthur

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