Champagne

Raise your crystal flûte
Of liquid chromatism,
And watch how the sequins
Catch the coloured light,
Pyrotechnic effervescence
Bursting to the brim and
Frothing forth, sweet and dry
In a fluid spray of fizzing sparks:
Carbonated gold,
Essence of sunshine.

Clink, echoes the glass
As it chimes, once then twice:
A crisp, clear peal to ring in
The season's merry tidings,
Endings and beginnings;
And you toast to the future,
Drinking to health and fortune,
To friendship, to love,
To peace and goodwill,
A toast to celebrate life.