Ulysses (1922) — Chapter 1

And no more turn aside and broodUpon love's bitter mysteryFor Fergus rules the brazen cars.

O, won’t we have a merry time,Drinking whisky, beer and wine,On coronationCoronation day?O, won’t we have a merry timeOn coronation day?

—I’m the queerest young fellow that ever you heard.—My mother’s a jew, my father’s a bird.—With Joseph the joiner I cannot agree,—So here’s to disciples and Calvary.

—If anyone thinks that I amn’t divine—He’ll get no free drinks when I’m making the wine—But have to drink water and wish it were plain—That I make when the wine becomes water again.

—Goodbye, now, goodbye. Write down all I said—And tell Tom, Dick and Harry I rose from the dead.—What’s bred in the bone cannot fail me to fly—And Olivet’s breezy… Goodbye, now, goodbye.

Liliata rutilantium.Turma circumdet.Jubilantium te virginum