’Tis decided, thou must know.

Hear life’s jingle! join the throng;

Youth and pleasure stay not long.

With shades of eve came other dancers gay,

Their smiles enticing young and old away;

As in and out about the streets they roamed,

They joked and sang while many a goblet foamed:

On our dress of spotless white

We are wreathing garlands bright;

And will sing, kiss, sip,