• Sparkling and bright in liquid light,
    Does the wine our goblets gleam in,
    With hue as red as the rosy bed
    Which a bee would choose to dream in.
      Then fill to-night, with hearts as light,
        To loves as gay and fleeting
      As bubbles that swim on the beaker’s brim,
        And break on the lips while meeting.

    Oh! if Mirth might...

  • Sparkling and bright in liquid light,
    Does the wine our goblets gleam in,
    With hue as red as the rosy bed
    Which a bee would choose to dream in.
      Then fill to-night, with hearts as light,
        To loves as gay and fleeting
      As bubbles that swim on the beaker’s brim,
        And break on the lips while meeting.

    Oh! if Mirth might...