Janice's version rings a bell with me. I imagine that popular tradition has altered the original to one form or other of "Here's to...", which is the customary introduction to a toast.
My Bartlett's, which quotes the same John Collins Bossidy original as does Wikipedia, has a footnote:
Patterned on the toast given at the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Harvard Class of 1880, by a Westerner:
Here's to old Massachusetts.
The home of the sacred cod
Where the Adamses vote for Douglas
And the Cabots walk with God.
I think Bossidy as modified by tradition is the best of the lot.
— Woody
Last edited by Woody Long; 12-12-2014 at 09:41 PM.
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