Analysis of A rhine-land drinking song

If our own life is the life of a flower
   (And that's what some sages are thinking),
We should moisten the bud with a health-giving flood
     And 'twill bloom all the sweeter--
     Yes, life's the completer
   For drinking,
         and drinking,
               and drinking.

If it be that our life is a journey
   (As many wise folk are opining),
We should sprinkle the way with the rain while we may;
     Though dusty and dreary,
     'Tis made cool and cheery
   With wining,
         and wining,
               and wining.

If this life that we live be a dreaming
   (As pessimist people are thinking),
To induce pleasant dreams there is nothing, meseems,
     Like this sweet prescription,
     That baffles description--
   This drinking,
         and drinking,
               and drinking.