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174 THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP
youth in bygone days. Phillip accordingly lifted up his great voice
and sang :—
DOCTOR LUTHER.
" For the souls' edification
Of this decent congregation,
Worthy people ! by your grant,
I will sing a holy chant.
I will sing a holy chant,
If the ditty sound but oddly,
'Twas a father wise and godly,
Sang it so long ago.
Then sing as Doctor Luther sang,
As Doctor Luther sang :
Who loves not wine, woman, and song,
He is a fool his whole life long.
He by custom patriarchal,
Loved to see the beaker sparkle,
And he thought the wine improved,
Tasted by the wife he loved,
By the kindly lips ho loved.
Friends ! I wish this custom pious
Duly were adopted by us,
To combine love, song, wine ;
And sing as Doctor Luther sang,
As Doctor Luther sang :
Who loves not wine, woman, and song,
He is a fool his whole life long.
Who refuses this our credo,
And demurs to drink as we do,
Were he holy as John Knox,
I'd pronounce him heterodox.
I'd pronounce him heterodox,
And from out this congregation,
With a solemn commination,
Banish quick the heretic,
Who would not sing as Luther sang,
As Doctor Luther sang :
Who loves not wine, woman, and song,
He is a fool his whole life long."
The reader's humble servant was older than most of the party
assembled at this symposium, which may have taken place some
score of years back; but as I listened to the noise, the fresh
laughter, the songs remembered out of old university days, the
talk and cant phrases of the old school of which most of us had
been disciples, dear me, I felt quite young again, and when certain