TOBACCO LEAVES 



Like fragrant phantoms arabesqued in 

 smoke. 



FRANCIS S. SALTUS. 



THE MEERSCHAUM * 



SCORN not the meerschaum. Housewives, 

 you have croaked 



In ignorance of all its charms. Through 

 this small reed 



Did Milton, now and then, consume the 

 weed; 



The poet Tennyson hath oft invoked 



The muse with glowing pipe, and Thack- 

 eray joked 



And wrote and sang in nicotinian mood; 



Hawthorne with this hath cheered his soli- 

 tude; 



A thousand times this pipe hath Lowell 

 smoked ; 



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