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^(C1)Wine is a mocker, ^(C2)intoxicating drink a brawler, And whoever ^(F1)is intoxicated by it is not wise.

Listen, my son, and ^(C1)be wise, And ^(C2)direct your heart in the way.

Do not be with ^(C1)heavy drinkers of wine, Or with ^(C2)gluttonous eaters of meat;

For the ^(C1)heavy drinker and the glutton will come to poverty, And ^(C2)drowsiness will clothe one with rags.

Who has ^(C1)woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has red eyes?

Those who ^(C1)linger long over wine, Those who go to ^(F1)taste ^(C2)mixed wine.

Do not look at wine when it is red, When it ^(F1)sparkles in the cup, When it ^(C1)goes down smoothly;

In the end it ^(C1)bites like a snake And stings like a ^(C2)viper.

Your eyes will see strange things And your ^(F1)mind will ^(C1)say perverse things.

And you will be like one who lies down in the ^(F1)middle of the sea, Or like one who lies down on the top of a ^(F2)mast.

"They ^(C1)struck me, but I did not become ^(F1)ill; They beat me, but I did not know it. When will I awake? I will ^(C2)seek ^(F2)another drink."