Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE LAST TOAST, by MARY COLES CARRINGTON


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THE LAST TOAST, by                    
First Line: I would taste oblivion's wine
Last Line: Let me drain oblivion's wine!
Subject(s): Toasts


I would taste oblivion's wine,
Eager only to divine
Whether it in truth may bring
Respite from remembering.

Life the chaplet from my hair --
Gone are hands that placed it there!
Shred the leaves and break the stem
Of this futile diadem!

Lay aside my robes of state;
Lights are dim, the hour grows late;
Better now that I should be
Freed from useless panoply.

Bid the single guest come in,
I am ready to begin.
Hasten this last toast of mine --
Let me drain oblivion's wine!





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