| Here’s to my acquaintance, and companion
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| Lift your glass
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| I love you, and leave you
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| I do, give you, all my best
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| Here’s to lovely lasses
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| Who by now are sleeping sound
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| We miss you, and kiss you,
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| We will, until we can no longer hope
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| And I would spread the softest ground,
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| For you to walk around,
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| If I could be your right hand,
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| I’d bless the seed that I would sow,
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| And hope that it would grow
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| Into a sight to hold you
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| And we could have the richest thing
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| To make your songbird sing
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| A tale to haunt the evening.
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| Then I would give you every note
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| Of every song I wrote
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| For them to ring forever |