THE CHARM OF LIFE.
Tell me not in penny numbers, Stnoking's but a loa'haorae dream; Worae thaa onions und cucumbers, Though they be chawed up like eteim I Smoke is sweetness, dona in earnest, Power pnssessing to console, If 'tis healthy weed thou burnest In the clay or meerschaum bowl. Not to add expectoration, Dotli the smoker burn the weed; But to woo sweet meditation, And also digest his " feed." " Shag " is strong, " Keturns " is milder. •'Cavendish" but mits the brave; Though cur puUes beat the wilder, Still for 'bacca do we crave. In this world co full of brawliuy, If in years your manhood's ripe, Heed ye not the antis' calling— Be a man and smoke a pipe 1 Pipes of great men nil remind ua (Th ugh of clay the bowl aud stem) Wheresoever fate may fi.id us, We can color pipes like them. Dhu'lcens that perhaps another On the wheel of fortune broke, Some forlorn and bankrupt brother, Seeing, may take heart and aonoke. Let us, then, take weed and matches, And a pipe — that is euough, Though it only be by snatches, Spared from toil, we still will puff. — [Wrongfellow.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XL, Issue 205, 21 August 1876, Page 2
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194THE CHARM OF LIFE. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XL, Issue 205, 21 August 1876, Page 2
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