NEW CROP OF TOBACCO POETRY. 139 



the wax, and, when taken from the pipe, 

 is liable to leave blotches. 



Remember that the bowl of a meer- 

 schaum should never be touched by any- 

 thing while it is hot or even warm. 



Clean a meerschaum in the same way 

 as you do a briar pipe. 



TO MY PIPE. 



O, I love the merry gurgle of my pipe, 



Brier pipe ; 

 When the flavor of the weed within is ripe 



What a lullaby it purls. 



As the smoke around me curls. 

 Mounting slowly higher, higher. 

 As I dream before the fire, 



With a flavor in my mouth, 



Like a zephyr from the South, 

 And my favorite tobacco 



By my side, 



Near my side, 



With the soothing necromancy 

 Sweetly linking fact to fancy, 



In a golden memory-chain 



To the gurgle, sweet refrain, 

 Of my pipe, brier pipe, 

 To the fancy-breeding gurgie of my pipe. 



