{"id":15788,"date":"2023-12-01T01:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T06:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=15788"},"modified":"2023-12-17T22:15:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T03:15:41","slug":"beware-of-egg-nog-a-poem-from-1817","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=15788","title":{"rendered":"Beware Of Egg-Nog (a poem from 1817)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source:\u00a0 “<\/b><\/span>The American Beacon,” Norfolk, December 24, 1817<\/b><\/p>\n

Author: Anonymous<\/b><\/p>\n

While the little boys cry ‘merry Christmas is coming,’
\nShall I be as dull as a water-drunk log?
\nNo! I’ll sing you a song (for we bards must be humming)
\nAnd the burden shall still be, Beware of Egg-nog.<\/i><\/p>\n

When the bowl mantles over the elegant foam,
\nAnd the steam rises up in a silvery tog;
\nPut by the potation, keep Reason at home,
\nAnd think of my warning, Beware of Egg-nog.<\/i><\/p>\n

When Circe, the witch, caught Ulysses’s men,
\nShe gave each a dram that soon made him a hog;
\nThe identical mixture–’tis now as ’twas then;
\nSo attend to the moral, Beware of Egg-nog.<\/i><\/p>\n

When the circle is form’d, the glass passes round,
\nOld Satan draws night, tho’, as usual, incog.,
\nAnd chuckles to see good Sobriety drown’d–
\nWould you frustrate his malice–Beware of Egg-nog.<\/i><\/p>\n

But why do I rail at one liquor this way?
\nIs no other as fatal; rum, brandy, or grog?
\nYes, yes, they’re all one, I mean all when I say,
\nAnd I’ll say but once more now, Beware of Egg-nog.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Source:\u00a0 “The American Beacon,” Norfolk, December 24, 1817 Author: Anonymous While the little boys cry ‘merry Christmas is coming,’ Shall I be as dull as a water-drunk log? No! I’ll sing you a song (for we bards must be humming) And the burden shall still be, Beware of Egg-nog. When the bowl mantles over the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15790,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15788\/revisions\/15790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}