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"SCORN NOT THE MEERSCHAUM. HOUSEWIVES, YOU HAVE CROAKED", by                    
Last Line: "drops no sustaining fruit, how sweet to pout / consolatory whiffs, alas, too brief"
Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco;pipes;cigars;cigarettes


Scorn not the meerschaum. Housewives, you have croaked
In ignorance of its charms. Through this small reed
Did Milton, now and then, consume the weed;
The poet Tennyson hath oft evoked
The Muse with glowing pipe, and Thackeray joked
And wrote and sang in nicotinian mood;
Hawthorne with this hath cheered his solitude;
A thousand times this pipe hath Lowell smoked;
Full oft hath Aldrich, Stoddard, Taylor, Cranch,
And many more whose verses float about,
Puffed the Virginian or Havana leaf;
And when the poet's or the artist's branch,
Drops no sustaining fruit, how sweet to pout
Consolatory whiffs, alas, too brief!





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