TEA-DRINKERS' SONG.

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 233, 28 February 1885, Page 9

TEA-DRINKERS' SONG.

(By a Tea-totaller.) Let us drink in this cup to the health of Pekoe, While Aye think how much joy to its virtues we OAve. It inebriates not, come drink deeply and long ; It Avlll fill us Avith gladness, inspire us with song. Sweet Pekoe ! when Aye ta&t3 of thy balmy bouquet, We forget all our ills, and the heart becomes gay; For in Avhat balsam on earth do Aye find So great flow - to the spirits and rest to the mind ? There is mirth in the goblet, 'tis true, but beAvare ! For its mirth may rebound to the gall of despair. In thy fumes, regal Tea, there is . no such. alloy, For thou givest to thy lovers continual joy. For the millions of heroes on land and on sea, Can Aye find a safe beverage equalling Tea ? With the poor and the Avealthy its joys we may share, ' * And thy sweetness, chaste cuo, Aye inay'sip with the fair. Pakeha, Papai-oa. [The gifted, author of the above neat thing in odes informs us that a friend of his in London speaks very highly of the Observer, and appears to be greatly pleased with it. He docs us proud. But this is nothing. Wo happen to "know on unimpeachable authority tbat the Observer is highly appreciated on the farthest heights, of the Himalaya Mountains, - and that even the miners in No. 1 Pit, EbbAV Vale, Monmouthshire (600 yards beloAv the surface qf the e:u*th), do not consider the paper too low for them. The Esquimaux say it is the onlypaper that contains any .«//. f-reading ; at Ceylon they cut out all the spiciest pars and grind 'em up for export; while on the Equator, the Africans and Borneans say it is often hotter than popper. We knoAV what "Pakeha's" Tittle game was in giving us this spoonful of jam We've seen it .-.too I often. Whenever a bucolic has got. a bid' I attack of poetry and wants to inflict it on. I ' A. : V - *

us, he always slings in something about "your valuable journal," "your influential and widely-circulated journal," "having read the admirable article," and so forth. And now, after this little bit of reciprocal toffey for " Pakeha," we think we had better *'go and see a friend."— Ed. Obs.l