To a Lady, with a Present of a Pair of Drinking-glasses (Poem by Robert Burns)

To a Lady, with a Present of a Pair of Drinking-glasses

By Robert Burns

Fair Empress of the Poet's soul,

    And Queen of Poetesses;

Clarinda, take this little boon,

    This humble pair of glasses.

And fill them high with generous juice,

    As generous as your mind;

And pledge me in the generous toast — 

    "The whole of human kind!"

"To those who love us!" — second fill;

    But not to those whom we love;

Lest we love those who love not us! — 

    A third — "to thee and me, love!"