So do not turn down another cup of wine — You had better have another cup. The speaker has already drunk so much that he is literally “sick with wine.” Why then continue drinking, “day after day?” Because by tomorrow these flowers may be gone. The next line, “I won't avoid the mirror in which my once bright face grows thin,” Shows the speaker observing himself in the mirror, observing the effects of his daily drinking, knowing that it is because of the drinking that his face has grown thin. think of a person who smokes cigarettes. friends may tell him he should stop, but he will not listen. It is a kind of enjoyment for him. But when one day a doctor tells him he has a problem in his lungs and has to stop smoking, then he will stop. This reference to “the mirror in which my once bright face grows thin” depicts this kind of self-reflection.