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What Shall We Drink?
Gentle friends, forbear to laugh
As I toast the wine I quaff—
Fair companions, what can be
Truer friend to you and me?
—George Sterling
God of youth,let this day here
Enter neither care nor fear!
—John Fletcher
A Book of Verses underneath the bough,
A Jug of Wine,a Loaf of Bread—and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness—
Ah, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
—Omar Khayyam
Let's be gay while we may
And seize love with laughter;
I'll be true
As long as you
But not a moment after!
—Anon
Here's to the bride and mother-in-law.
Here's to the groom and father-in-law.
Here's to the sister and brother-in-law.
Here's to friends and friends-in-law.
May none of them need an attorney-at-law!
—Anon
Here's to the girl that I love
And here's to the girl who loves me;
And here's to all who love her whom I love.
And all those who love her who loves me!
—Ouida
Ah,my beloved, fill the cup that clears
Today of past'regrets and future fears;
Tomorrow? Why,tomorrow I may be
Myself with yesterday's sev'n thousand years!
—"Rubaiyat"(Fitzgerald trans.)
If she think not well of me,
What care I how fair she be?
—George Wither