A STEIN SONG

(From "fi'pring")

            Give a rouse, then, in the May time

            For a life that knows no fear!

Turn night-time into daytime

            With the sunlight of good cheer!

            For it's always fair weather

            When good fellows get together,

With a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear.

When the wind comes up from Cuba,

            And the birds are on the wing,

And our hearts are patting j uba

            To the banjo of the spring,

            Then it's no wonder whether

            The boys will get together,

With a stein on the table and a cheer for everything.

For we're all frank-and-twenty

            When the spring is in the air;

And we've faith and hope a-plenty,

            And we've life and love to spare:

            And it's birds of a feather

            When we all get together,

With a stein on the table and a heart without a care.

For we know the world is glorious,

            And the goal a golden thing,

And that God is not censorious

            When his children have their fling;

            And life slips its tether

            When the boys get together,

With a stein on the table in the fellowship of spring.