F. Medwin.

SMOKE.

"A trifle light as air."

Swift sang a broomstick, and with matchless lore

Rehearsed the contents of a housemaid's drawer:

Great Burns's genius shone sublime in lice;

Old Homer epicised on frogs and mice;

And, leaping from his swift Pindaric car,

Great Byron eulogised the light cigar;

Pope for a moment left the critic's chair,