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THE scene was merry, bright and gay As I came to my first one day. Beside my last I saw a lass Dispense refreshment in a glass. She was my first. “My last,” said I, “I ’ll take a drink, for I am dry.” Smiling, as she the goblet passed, She said, “Here you my first my last.” “My whole,” said I, “ere I depart, I ’ll say that there is in my heart (Just here the word must be reversed—) A wish for your my last my first.”