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Verses to Clarinda, with Drinking Glasses

by Robert Burns, 1788

Fair Empress of the Poet's soul,
  And Queen of Poetesses;
Clarinda, take this little boon,
  This humble pair of glasses:

And fill them up with generous juice,
  As generous as your mind;
And pledge them to 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!"

Published in Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
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