friend please enter the manor

where envy uncocks at the gate

proceed through the avenue of honour

where a crest describes you on its plate

dinner is served in the stateroom

where union strikes out solitude

challenge and question, the menu

ideas and solutions, the food

enter industrious warriors

who tilt at the unreachable star

intoxicate us with your windmills

as we all come to know who you are

observing successes by insights

which like comets draw near from the sky

I hope when the evening's over

you reflect on it warmly as I

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