Here's
to absent friends and here's twice to absent enemies.
Here's to the light heart
and the heavy hand.
Heres to you and yours
and to mine and ours
and if mine and ours ever comes across you and yours
I hope you and yours
will do as much for mine and ours
as mine and ours have done for you and yours.
Thirst is a shameless disease
so here's to a shameful cure.
Here's to a wet night and
a dry morning.
May we always have a clean
shirt, a clean conscience, and a bob in the pocket.
May you be across Heaven's
threshold before the old boy knows you're dead.
May the face of every good
news
and the back of every bad news be towards us.
May the roof above us never
fall in
and may we friends gathered below never fall out.
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