Pride of the tube-case, Delight of the pipe.
Weed of the savage, weed of each pole,
Comforting,—soothing,—Philosophy’s soul;
Come in the snuff-box, Come in cigar,
In Strasburgh and King’s, come from afar;
Still thou art welcome, the purest, the best,
Joy of earth’s millions, for ever carest.
From Nicotiana, by Henry James Meller. London Effingham Wilson. 1832.
Virginia Tobacco.