1913 The Up to Date Bartender's Guide by Harry Montague

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Then to this flowing bowl did I adjourn. My lip the secret well of life to learn; And lip to lip it murrnur’d— “While you live. Drink!—“for once dead. you never shall return.” —Omar Khayyam. \/Vhile we live let us live in clover. For when we’re dead we’re dead all over. “Happy days.” “Set ’e1n up again.” IF I SHOULD DIE. . If I should die tonight : And you should come to my cold corpse and say. VVeeping and heartsick o’er my lifeless clay.— And you should come in deepest grief and woe— And say. “Here’s that ten dollars that I owe.” I might arise in my large. white cravaL And say. “What’s that?”