SMOKING AWAY.

Floating away like the fountains' spray,

Or the snow-white plume of a maiden,

The smoke-wreaths rise to the starlit skies

With blissful fragrance laden.

Chorus. Then smoke away till a golden ray

Lights up the dawn of the morrow,

For a cheerful cigar, like a shield, will bar,

The blows of care and sorrow.

The leaf burns bright, like the gems of light