Chapter 67 No.67

Hands all Round

[Published in The Examiner, February 7, 1852. Reprinted, slightly altered, in Life, vol. I, p. 345. Included, almost entirely re-written, in collected Works.]

First drink a health, this solemn night,

A health to England, every guest;

That man's the best cosmopolite

Who loves his native country best.

May Freedom's o