C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Toasts (To Sweetheart)

Here’s to one; may she be won.

May their joys be as deep as the ocean,
And their misfortune as light as its foam.

May we have the unspeakable good fortune to win a true heart, and the merit to keep it.

Here’s to the heart
Though another’s it be;
Here’s to the cheeks,
Though they bloom not for me.

Here’s to the wings of love;
May they never moult a feather
Until your little barque and my little barque
Sail down the stream of life together.