And cleanly pipes pour out tobacco’s fumes.
From rustic bridegroom oft he takes the ring;
And hears the milkmaid plaintive ballads sing.
Back-gammon cheats whole winter nights away,
And Pilgrim’s Progress helps a rainy day.
President John Quincy Adams so far relaxed from his political dignity as to write light verse.
TO SALLY
The man in righteousness arrayed,
A pure and blameless liver,
Needs not the keen Toledo blade,