H. L.

From Cope’s Tobacco Plant. September, 1874.


Hamlet’s Soliloquy on Tobacco.

To smoke or not to smoke, that is the question:

Whether a mild cigar assists digestion;

Or, whether it begets a kind of quaintness,

Which some would say was nothing but a faintness;

To smoke—to drink and then to go to bed;

To find a pillow for an aching head;