Do you remember that first Morning Drink
When Ed would smile and say, “What shall it be?”
“Would you advise a Gin Fizz, Ed, for me?”
“It is too early for a Fizz, I think.”
“And would an Absinthe put me on the blink,
I wonder, Ed?”—“Absinthe would not agree
This morning, sir.”—“Then what's your recipe?”
“A bland Club Cocktail, delicate and pink!”
O kindly Barkeeps that have raised me up
From morning glooms and made me live again,
Where are ye now, and where your wizardry?
As dead as great Ulysses' faithful pup!
As dead as Babylon and James G. Blaine!
As dead as Gyp the Blood and Nineveh!