And salves misfortune’s cruel bangs?
A smoke.
——:o:——
Hymn to Saint Nicotine.
(Imitation of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes.)
Strange! that this gently breathèd cloud
So far, far sweeter unto me,
Than all that this green earth enshroud,
Or float above the sea.
My meerschaum, when thy mouth I greet,