This song of mine  
  Is a song of the vine  
  To be sung by the glowing embers  
  Of wayside inns,  
  When the rain begins  
  To darken the drear Novembers. and  
  For the richest and best  
  Is the wind of the West  
  That grows by the Beautiful River;  
  Whose sweet perfume  
  Fills all the room  
  With a bension on the giver. and  
  When you ask one friend to dine,  
  Give hime your best wine!  
  When you ask two,  
  The second best will do.
The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (ed. 1867)



















