To chase away blue-thoughted melancholy,

To put rich flavorous, antique fine-cut tobacco,

Into these pipes by steady use grown blacker;

Pressed down with thumb to make it stay;

Two pinches of black dust shut in a bowl of clay.

V.

Our wives and children are at home, ’tis true;

But we can do without them, I and you;

All things have undergone a change back there;

Our babes climb other knees; our shirts new husbands wear!