Foes fear not who for toddy craze
The addicts daily their glory lose.
Drink not liquor: but let them drink
Whom with esteem the wise won't think.
The drunkard's joy pains even mother's face
How vile must it look for the wise?
Good shame turns back from him ashamed
Who is guilty of wine condemned.
To pay and drink and lose the sense
Is nothing but rank ignorance.
They take poison who take toddy
And doze even like a dead body.
The secret drunkard's senses off
Make the prying public laugh.
Don't say "I'm not a drunkard hard"
The hidden fraud is known abroad.
Can torch search one in water sunk?
Can reason reach the raving drunk?
The sober seeing the drunkard's plight
On selves can't they feel same effect?
ALCOHOL ADDICTION
