19^ THIRTY-FIVE YEARS IN THE EASl^. 



IH. 



Urban the Eighth, we read in history's pagej. 



Passed on snuf-ia^ers ex-commuoication.. 

 The Czar of Russia, in a former age. 



Punished the crime of this abomination 

 By cutting oft" the nose. The still more" sage 



Senate of Berne, on due deliberation, 

 Forbade the Swiss to smoke Tobacco, as a crime- 

 Great as was tke/i or murder in the code divine=. 



IV. 



In Canton Valois, I have read or heard, 



Exists a prohibition of its use in Youth ;, 

 A man must wait until he gets a beard 



Before he smokes. And 'tis a well-known truth> 

 That James the First, of England (" the absurd " ); 



Tried force, to put Tobacco down ;. forsooth, 

 A silly trick, in that pedantic king ;. 

 As Englishmen, 6ji'/(3/^^, will not, do anything.. 



v> 



Sultan Amurad the Fourth, to death condemned 

 All smokers of Tobacco, And that great man 



Baba Nanuk, whose conduct I commend, 

 By a religious obligation, formed a plan 



To keep it from the Sikhs ; he did forefend 



That poisonous weed, and through the nation rani 



His interdiction ; e'en as a. remedy for pain, 



All efforts to administer the weed, prove vain. 



VI. 



The ^o-c?i\\^A barbarous Sikh, preserves his race 



Against the noxious plant ; while boasting Europe trie^; 



To increase its filthy use ; Governments have the face,. 

 In spite of health, to form monopolies 



Of this most baneful weed — What a disgrace ! 

 E'en England's Rulers common-sense defies,, 



Bartering ( by Acts- of Parliament ) the health. 



Of a whole people, for a little wealth ! 



