As a member of the Order of the Longleaf Pine, I exercise my authority, with all due deliberation, to take poetic license with the State toast:
Here's from the land
of the long leaf pine,
The summer land
Where the sun doth shine,
Where the weak grow strong
and the strong grow great,
Here's to Gunman 1911,
from the Old North State!
And to the rest of the participants as well, worthy friends, all.
Merry Christmas.
Mac.