142 TOBACCO IN EUROPE. 



Scattered in the Magazine literature of the last 

 century, are some good specimens of what lovers of the 

 weed can do in the way of rhyme. One of the most 

 whimsical of these effusions occurs in the Gentleman's 

 Magazine for February 1857, and is as follows : — 



CHOOSING A WIFE BY A PIPE OF TOBACCO. 



Tube, I love thee as my life ; 

 By tb.ee I mean to cbuse a wife. 

 Tube, tby colour let me find, 

 In her skin, and in her mind. 

 Let her bave a shape as fine ; 

 Let her breath be sweet as thine : 

 Let her, wben her lips I kiss, 

 Bum like thee, to give me bliss : 

 Let her in some smoke or other 

 All my failings kindly smother. 

 Often when my thoughts are low, 

 Send them where tbey ought to go. 

 When to study I incline, 

 Let her aid be such as thine : 

 Such as thine her charming pow'r 

 In the vacant social hour. 

 Let her live to give delight, 

 Ever warm and ever bright : 

 Let her deeds, when'er she die;-;, 

 Mount as incense to the skies. 



One of the best and most curious effusions which 

 tobacco smoke has inspired, was the Pipe of Tobacco by 

 Isaac Hawkins Brown.* It is a series of six poems on 

 this theme, written — and admirably written — in the 

 styles of six different authors.t With the selection of one 



* Born 1705, died, 1760. 



t They are Cibber (the Laureat), Phillips, Thomson, Young, Pope, 

 Swift. They may be seen in Ritson's Anthology, and Dodsley. 



