"Terence, this is stupid stuff!
You eat your victuals fast enough;
There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear,
To see the rate you drink your beer.
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Ah, yes, the power of positive drinking. Way too much competition for our humble verse.
While this is my favorite poem, I still disagree with the second narrator of this poem that there is much less good than ill. I have a more upbeat view on the world than Housman did.