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PAUL: By acclamation, yes.
NISANA: Le'me think. We did drink to the children--those in bed and those who ought to be--
HELEN: 'Ception.
DOROTHY: Great big woman. You weigh a ton, sweet stuff, 'n'
so do your eyelids, they do.
NISANA: And we drank to the olifants. No no--I am too happy--my mind is a lake without a breeze. You propose the toast, Pakriaa.
SALLY: Matter of fact I'm already sort of whooliollicky--I think--
DOROTHY: Hey--maybe it's not just the wine. Paul--Doc--it must be almost thirteen hours--
PAUL: Yes--yes, almost. Maybe you'd better--
SALLY: No, let's have one more toast. At least one more, Pakriaa?
WRIGHT: I'll drink with you, Pakriaa.
PAKRIAA: Oh--let us be happy. Friends, I give you the wine itself and the earth that made it. I give you birth and death and the journey of our days and nights between them, the s.h.i.+ning of green fields, the patience of the forest, the little stars, the great stars, the love and the thought, the labor and the laughter, the good morning sky.