A CAVALIER'S TOAST.
Reading edition
I.
Some drink to Friendship, some to Love,— Through whom the world is fair, perdie!— But I to one these others prove, Who leaps 'mid lions for a glove, Or dies to set another free— I drink to Loyalty.
II.
No dagger his, no cloak and mask, Free-faced he stands so all may see; Let Friendship set him any task, Or Love—reward he does not ask, The deed is done whate'er it be— So here's to Loyalty.