At 10 p. m. <br />COME, let us make merry with innocent mirth, <br />Let us drink to the year that is dying; <br />Let us wish one another the best that's on earth, <br />Now quickly, the moments are flying. <br />Here waiter! Come, fill up the glasses again, <br />Tonight we are here to be merry, <br />Forgot are the grief and the trouble and pain <br />That the old fellow brought in his ferry. <br />Nothing boisterous here, as we chat and we drink <br />At the table we've rented for folly, <br />But in friendship this evening our glasses we clink, <br />To welcome the year and be jolly. <br /> <br />At 11 p. m. <br />Some old-fashioned folks stay at home to be gay <br />Where ther'sh never an orchestra playing, <br />But I like the thrill of a modern cafe, <br />I believe in all customs obeying. <br />Then here's to ush all at the table tonight, <br />May the New Year bring nothing but gladness, <br />And cheeks that are rosy and eyes that are bright, <br />And may we know none of its badness. <br />Now, waiter, just fill up thoshe glasses again, <br />May you never know sad melancholy, <br />May the year that is coming bring you little rain, <br />May you always succeed and be jolly. <br /> <br />At 12 m. <br />Ish a Happy New Year! May you alwaysh be gay! <br />Whoopee! for zhe New Year (hic) arriving; <br />Do youshe fellersh know what I'm trying to sha? <br />Do youshe get (hic) at what I am driving? <br />Ish all right now fellersh, lesh fill up zhe glass, <br />(Hic) I like yesh and I want t' show it. <br />Yesh mighty fine fellersh. (Hic) Yesh all first class <br />And I want zhe New Year to know it. <br />Hersh a happy New Year. Whoopee for yesh all 1 <br />May yesh never go wrong with yersh folly, <br />May long be yersh daysh on thish tresh-shiul ball <br />And may every shecund be jolly.<br /><br />Edgar Albert Guest<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/welcoming-the-new-year-4/
