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The Philosophy of a Feast	B
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Make merry comrades eat and drink	C
The sunlight flickers on the sea	D
The garlands gleam the glasses clink	C
The grape juice mantles fair and free	D
The lamps are trimm'd although the light	E
Of day still lingers on the sky	F
We sit between the day and night	E
And push the wine flask merrily	D
I see you feasting round me still	G
All gay of heart and strong of limb	H
Make merry friends your glasses fill	G
The lights are growing dim	H
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I miss the voice of one I've heard	I
The sunlight sinks upon the sea	D
He sang as blythe as any bird	I
And shook the rafters with his glee	D
But times have changed with him I wot	I
By fickle fortune cross'd and flung	J
Far stouter heart than mine he's got	I
If now he sings as then he sung	J
Yet some must swim when others sink	C
And some must sink when others swim	H
Make merry comrades eat and drink	C
The lights are growing dim	H
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I miss the face of one I've loved	I
The sunlight settles on the sea	D
Long since to distant climes he roved	I
He had his faults and so have we	D
His name was mentioned here this day	I
And it was coupled with a sneer	K
I heard nor had I aught to say	I
Though once I held his memory dear	K
Who cares 'mid wines and fruits and flowers	L
Though death or danger compass him	H
He had his faults and we have ours	L
The lights are growing dim	H
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I miss the form of one I know	M
The sunlight wanes upon the sea	D
'Tis not so very long ago	M
We drank his health with three times three	D
And we were gay when he was here	N
And he is gone and we are gay	I
Where has he gone or far or near	K
Good sooth 'twere somewhat hard to say	I
You glance aside you doubtless think	C
My homily a foolish whim	H
'Twill soon be ended eat and drink	C
The lights are growing dim	H
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The fruit is ripe the wine is red	I
The sunlight fades upon the sea	D
To us the absent are the dead	I
The dead to us must absent be	D
We too the absent ranks must joinn	M
And friends will censure and forget	I
There's metal base in every coin	M
Men vanish leaving traces yet	I
Of evil and of good behind	I
Since false notes taint the skylark's hymn	M
And dross still lurks in gold refined	I
The lights are growing dim	M
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We eat and drink or ere we die	I
The sunlight flushes on the sea	D
Three hundred soldiers feasted high	I
An hour before Thermopylae	D
Leonidas pour'd out the wine	M
And shouted ere he drain'd the cup	O
'Ho comrades let us gaily dine	M
This night with Pluto we shall sup '	-
And if they leant upon a reed	I
And if their reed was slight and slim	M
There's something good in Spartan creed	I
The lights are growing dim	M
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Make merry comrades eat and drink	C
The sunlight flashes on the sea	D
My spirit is rejoiced to think	C
That even as they were so are we	D
For they like us were mortals vain	M
The slaves to earthly passions wild	I
Who slept with heaps of Persians slain	M
For winding sheets around them piled	I
The dead man's deeds are living still	D
My Festive speech is somewhat grim	M
Their good obliterates their ill	D
The lights are growing dim	M
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We eat and drink we come and go	M
The sunlight dies upon the open sea	D
I speak in riddles Is it so	M
My riddles need not mar your glee	D
For I will neither bid you share	P
My thoughts nor will I bid you shun	M
Though I should see in yonder chair	P
Th' Egyptian's muffled skeleton	M
One toast with me your glasses fill	D
Aye fill them level with the brim	M
De mortuis nisi bonum nil	D
The lights are growing dim	M

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