These four, one spoonful each, combine:
Juice of apples freshly pressed,
Cider aged past seven days,
Apple-vinegar, tart and brown,
Apple-brandy, clear and strong;
Add to these an ounce of honey,
One scant drop of wintergreen;
Stir them, warm them, mix them well,
And take the tonic every dawn,
Saying this to work the spell:
If I must pay
The apples price,
I shall be young
As well as wise,
Filling my cup
With honeyed days
And hours as green
As Eden's grass.
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