Start not—’tis true, or I’m a living liar!
But pipes on pipes of “Bacca,” day by day,
With poison laden, did their fates control;
Strong-smelling oil stopp’d up the narrow way,
And now they may no more console my soul.
Full many a pipe, of purest briar root,
The stern schoolmaster confiscates and breaks;
Full many a clay, too, seized is by the brute,
And flung with tops and marbles, buttons, cakes.
One colour’d meerschaum that, in hidden poke