Why dost thou haunt me?"

its metre was admirably imitated by the late C. S. Calverley, in his

ODE TO TOBACCO.

THOU who, when fears attack

Bidst them avaunt, and Black

Care, at the horseman's back,

Perching, unseatest;

Sweet when the morn is grey;

Sweet when they've cleared away

Lunch, and at close of day