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INSCRIPTION FOR TOBACCO JARS by ANONYMOUS

First Line: DO YOU RECALL THE WONDROUS BRAZEN VASE
Last Line: BECOMES TO MAN EMBODIED - REVERIE!
Subject(s): SMOKING; TOBACCO;PIPES;CIGARS;CIGARETTES;

Do you recall the wondrous brazen vase,
Fish'd up long since in an Arabian night,
Whence rose a thick columnar smoke, that was
A fearful Djinn of more than mortal might?

I am akin to it.—Within my womb,
Hid in the fragrant stores therein that be,
There dwells a kindly genius, that, from fume,
Becomes to man embodied—Reverie!



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