The Manger Restaurant, 611 Washington Street, San Francisco, Calif.
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(Formerly Bonini's Manger) Unique Luncheons and Dinners. The Manger's Magic Candlesticks A thousand nights the crimson candle burned; A thousand perfumed nights, and from its breast Ran blood red drops that wrote in hieroglyph The hopes that longing eyes to eyes confessed. An when a thousand nights and one were gone We two beneath the candle's magic spell Saw Life and Love and Passion pass and smile with rosy greeting and a dim farewell. Ah! When for me Life's candle shall wax old And Joy's mad flame no more shall burn for me Then on my soul let tracery be found Of that one perfect night spent with thee! To you who sit beside this lava flow Of melting wax and drink tonight's Life wine, I send a spirit handclasp 'cross the board And with you here the joy that once was mine! Here where the now re-lighted candle burns The vanished spirit of Romance returns And all the dreams of youth revive and sing Of love and high adventuring. Lannie Haynes Martin
From the Darlene Thorne Collection |