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Across The Table. To A. L. L.

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Here's to you, Arthur! You and I     Have seen a lot of stormy weather,     Since first we clinked cups on the sly     At school together.     The winds of fate have had their will     And blown our crafts so far apart     We hardly knew if either still     Were on the chart.     But now I know the love of man     Is more than time or space or fate,     And laugh to scorn the powers that ban,     With you for mate.     It's good to have you sitting by,     Old man, to prove the world no botch,     To shame the devil with your eye     And pass the Scotch.

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"Here's to you, Arthur! You and I..."

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