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by Pierre Pettit, in a poem of five hundred lines, as well 

 as by a German versifier, who celebrated, in a fashion of 

 his own, " The burial and happy resurrection of tea." In 

 opposition to the " country parson," who calls tea " a 

 nerveless and vaporous liquid," and Balzac, who describes 

 it as an " insipid and depressing beverage," the author 

 of " Eothen " records his testimony to " the cheering, 

 soothing influence of the steaming cup that Orientals 

 and Europeans alike enjoy." 



