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Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part II. - XX - Monastic Voluptuousness by William Wordsworth

Yet more, round many a Convent's blazing fire


Unhallowed threads of revelry are spun;


There Venus sits disguised like a Nun,


While Bacchus, clothed in semblance of a Friar,


Pours out his choicest beverage high and higher


Sparkling, until it cannot choose but run


Over the bowl, whose silver lip hath won


An instant kiss of masterful desire


To stay the precious waste. Through every brain


The domination of the sprightly juice


Spreads high conceits to madding Fancy dear,


Till the arched roof, with resolute abuse


Of its grave echoes, swells a choral strain,


Whose votive burthen is, "Our Kingdom's Here!"