Fill'd with a snake-encircled wand,

By classic authors termed Caduceus,

And highly famed for several uses:

To wit,—most wond'rously endued,

No poppy-water half so good;

For let folks only get a touch,

Its soporific virtue's such,

Though ne'er so much awake before,

That quickly they begin to snore;

Add, too, what certain writers tell,