sip
verb (used with object)
to drink (a liquid) a little at a time; take small tastes of.
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
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Like the bees, fluttering from flower to flower, we will have sipped the sweets of life and left no mark that we ever existed.
From Nick Baba's Last Drink and Other Sketches by George Paul Goff