And see in smoke a friendly foe:—

L slave is each man to the weed.

Brander Matthews.

From Mr. Gleeson White’s collection of Ballades and Rondeaus. London, Walter Scott, 1887.


In a Cloud of Smoke.

A Rondel.

In a cloud of smoke when the lights are low

I half forget that I’m nearly “broke,”

And my cares and my sorrows they seem to go