Toasts for the New Year

The Moran Library in the Moran Mansion at Rosario Resort is full of gems. I love the cover illustration of this book published in 1907 entitled "Toasts and After Dinner Stories." In preparation for your New Year's toasts, here are a few to consider from the book:

Here’s a health to the future,
A sigh for the past;
We can love and remember,
And hope to the last;
And for all the base lies
That the almanacs hold,
While there’s love in the heart,
We can never grow old.

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Here’s to Love; a thing so devine,
Description makes it but the less.
‘Tis what we feel, but cannot define -
‘Tis what we know, but cannot express.

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Don’t worry about the future,
The present is all thou hast,
The future will soon be the present,
And the present will soon be the past.

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