The lyrics to the song's opening stanza are:

The style can be illustrated by the opening stanza:

The opening stanza introduces the contrast between this life and the afterlife.

The opening stanza will afford us a tolerable example.

The opening stanza of his first poem, "Up!

The opening stanza gives some of its flavour:

Go tell my friend" is the gist of the opening stanza.

In the case of "Company", as the opening stanza has it.

The song also contains considerable double-entendre, beginning with the sentiments of the opening stanza:

The opening stanza, one of his more famous, is as follows: