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" Throughout the world who knows thee not ? 

 Of palace and of lowly cot 



The universal guest ; 

 The friend of Gentile, Turk and Jew, 

 To all a stay to none untrue, 

 The balm that can our ills subdue, 



And soothe us into rest. 



" With thee the poor man can abide 

 Oppression, want, the scorn of pride, 



The curse of penury, 

 Companion of his lonely state, 

 He is no longer desolate, 

 And still can brave an adverse fate, 



With honest worth and thee ! 



" All honor to the patriot bold, 



Who brought instead of promised gold, 



Thy leaf to Britain's shore ; 



It cost him life ; but thou shall raise 



A cloud of fragrance to his praise, 



And bards shall hail in deathless lays 



The valiant knight of yore. 



" Ay, Raleigh ! thou wilt live till Time 

 Shall ring his last oblivious chime, 



The fruitful theme of story ; 

 And man in ages hence shall tell, 

 How greatness, virtue, wisdom fell, 

 When England sounded out thy knell, 



And dimmed her ancient glory. 



" And thou, O Plant ! shall keep his name 

 Unwither'd in the scroll of fame, 



And teach us to remember ; 

 He gave with thee content and peace, 

 Bestow'd on life a longer lease, 

 And bidding ev'ry trouble cease, 



Made Summer of December !" 



The smoker of cigarettes is passionately attached to his 

 4 " little roll " and regards this mode of obtaining the flavor of 

 tobacco the best. The finest are made in Havana and, vast 

 quantities are used by the Cubans and Spaniards. A writer 

 in " The Tobacco Plant " gives this pleasing effusion in regard 

 to them : 



" Your cigarette is a sort of hybrid half -pipe and half- 

 cigar; neither the one nor the other; neither the delight of 



