To A Lady, With A Present Of A Pair Of Drinking-Glasses.
By Robert Burns
Fair Empress of the Poet's soul, And Queen of Poetesses; Clarinda, take this little boon, This humble pair of glasses. And fill them high with generous juice, As generous as your mind; And pledge me in the generous toast, "The whole of human kind!" "To those who love us!" second fill; But not to those whom we love; Lest we love those who love not us! A third, "to thee and me, love!"
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