Imitation III.

——Prorumpit ad æthera nubem

Turbine fumantem piceo.

Virg.

O thou, matur’d by glad Hesperian suns,

Tobacco, fountain pure of limpid[16] truth,

That looks the very soul; whence pouring thought

Swarms all the mind; absorpt is yellow care,

And[17] at each puff imagination burns.