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The Canadian Soldiers' Song Book/Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes

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From Jonson's poem "To Celia" (1616); set to music sometime after 1770.

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The Canadian Soldiers' Song Book

PART VI.—ENGLISH SONGS

81—DRINK TO ME ONLY WITH THINE EYES

Drink to me only with thine eyes, and I will pledge with mine,
Or leave a kiss within the cup, and I'll not ask for wine
The thirst that from the soul doth rise, doth ask a drink divine,
But might I of love's nectar sip, I would not change for thine.