Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TOBACCHANALIAN DAYS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD


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First Line: I love my fragrant brier
Last Line: Tobacchanalian days!
Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes


I love my fragrant brier
When I a-golfing hie;
A meerschaum by the fire,
Its charm who will deny?
A cob, if not too dry,
Evokes my meed of praise;
Then why decry, oh, why,
Tobacchanalian days!
Ofttimes do I aspire
(Be not the price too high!)
To that which they acquire
Beneath the Cuban sky;
If goes the world awry,
It cark and care allays;
Then why decry, oh, why,
Tobacchanalian days!

Though some may deem it dire
("Pernicious!" is their cry),
This is my deep desire
When midnight hours are nigh,
The cigarette whereby
Life's hung with happy haze;
Then why decry, oh, why,
Tobacchanalian days!

L'Envoi

Comrades, no dearer tie
Makes bright our wander-ways;
Then why decry, oh, why,
Tobacchanalian days!





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