So you, who would wish in your hearts to be gay.
Encourage not strife, care, or sorrow,
Make much of your pipe of tobacco to-day,
For you may be smoked out to-morrow:
For, though at my simile many may joke,
Man is but a pipe—and his life but smoke.
Anonymous.
La Femme et la Pipe.
Plains-moi, Philippe, mon ami;