1934 What Shall We Drink by Magnus Bredenbek

200 What Shall We Drink? Cursed be the companion of the glass—with a memory! —Lord Byron To home—the place where we grumble the most and are treated the best! May your shadow never grow less! —From the Arabian Here's to undertakers—may they never OVERtake us! —Henry Stanley Haskins To Home—a world of strife shut out,a world of love shut in. —Anon Come,fill your glass with wine that gleams As bright as stars above, And while the generous bumper streams, Let's toast the girls we love! —John McNaught(Paraphrased) Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we, too, into the Dust descend. Dust unto dust, and under dust to lie. Sans wine, sans song,sans singer and—sans end! .—"Rubaiyat"(Fitzgerald trans.) Here's a sigh to those who love me. And a smile to those who hate. And whatever sky's above me Here's a heart for any fate!—Byron You're beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Be proud of your blackened eye! It isn't the fact that you re licked that counts.

Buthow did you fight—and WHY?—Henley Ah,Love! Could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry scheme of things entire. Would we not shatter it to bits—and then Remould it nearer to the heart's desire!

—"Rubaiyat" (Fitzgerald trans.) May duty ne'er divert us from our love nor love divert us from our duty! —Anon