1903 The Bachelor Book

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CHAMPAGNE, Delicious,effervescent,cold champagne. Imprisoned sunshine,glorious and bright, How many virtues in thy charm unite? Who from thy tempting witchery can abstain?

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IRISH WHISKY. Thou bring'st out finely the old Celtic glee. Yarns,jokes and glorious bulls surpassed by none, Side-splitting stories,funny when begun. And at the end one royal mental spree.

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COFFEE.

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Voluptuous berryI where may mortals find Nectars divine that can with thee compare, When,having dined,we sip thy essence rare, And feel toward wit and repartee inclined?

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TEA. By thee the tired and torpid mind conceives. Fairer than roses brightening life's gloom. Thy protean charm can every form assume And turns December nights to April eves.

—Francis Saltus,

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That which is called firmness in a king is called obstinacy in a donkey.—LordKrskiiie. "Time eateth all things,could old poets say. The times are changed,our times drink all away." Seldom write, never burn,a letter.