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now I bring full-flavoured wine out of a barrel found Where seven Ephesian topers slept and never knew When Alexander's empire passed, they slept so sound.

William Butler Yeats
Wine, Sleep, Ephesians
William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.143, Hayes Barton Press
now I bring full-flavoured wine out of a barrel found Where seven Ephesian topers slept and never knew When Alexander's empire passed, they slept so sound.