For let ‘em be clumsy, or let ‘em be slim, Young or ancient, I care not a feather; So fill a pint bumper quite up to the brim, And let us e’en toast them together.
ATTRIBUTION:
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816), Irish dramatist. The School for Scandal (l. 16–19). . .
Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938) Oxford University Press.
