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I'm too sleepy to read, and too lazy to write;

So I'll watch the blue rings, as they eddy and twirl,

And in gossamer wreathings coquettishly curl.

In the stillness of night and the sparseness of chimes

There's a fleetness in fancy, a frolic in rhymes:

There's a world of romance that persistently clings

To the azurine curving of Cigarette Rings!

What a picture comes back from the past-away times!—

They are lounging once more 'neath the sweet-scented limes: