1934 What Shall We Drink by Magnus Bredenbek

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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