Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side
In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?
-- Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
-- Come, send round the Wine
Come, come," said Tom's father, "at your time of life
There's no longer excuse for thus playing the rake--
It is time you should think, boy, of taking a wife"--
"Why, so it is, father--whose wife shall I take?...