Herman Melville, To Daniel Shepherd (1859):
Now, is it for oft cursing gold,
For lucre vile,
The Hags do thus from me withhold
Sweet Bacchus' smile?
Scenes Beyond the Western Border by A Captain of U. S. Dragoons (June 1851):
Here Venus never smiles; nor Bacchus grins....
Southern Literary Messenger 17 (June 1851): 372 ; and Scenes and Adventures in the Army (1857).
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