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THE PIPE OF PEACE by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHAT IS THE MAGIC
Last Line: THE MARRIAGE CEREMONY?
Subject(s): MARRIAGE; PEACE; SMOKING; WEDDINGS; HUSBANDS; WIVES; TOBACCO; PIPES; CIGARS; CIGARETTES;
WHAT is the magic
Of a corncob pipe?
No matter how peevish or irritable
My husband may be,
When he is smoking his Missouri meerschaum
He will do anything I ask.
Couldn't something about corncob pipes
Be put in
The marriage ceremony?



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