Thyself all Hasheesh-fed—My Prototype!

Smoke Up—and when you gather with the Group

Where I made One—Turn Down an Empty Pipe!

Kate Masterson

LINES WRITTEN (“BY REQUEST")
FOR A DINNER OF THE OMAR
KHAYYAM CLUB

MASTER, in memory of that Verse of Thine,

And of Thy rather pretty taste in Wine,

We gather at this jaded Century's end,

Our Cheeks, if so we may, to incarnadine.

Thou hast the kind of Halo which outstays