300 LORD BYRON’S OPINION. 
“TI worship no vain gods, 
But serve the household Lar ; 
I’m sure to be at home, 
So I have my cigar. 
“T do not seek for fame, 
A General with a scar; 
A privatelet me be, 
So IT have my cigar. 
“To have my choice among 
The toys of life’s bazar, 
The deuce may take them all, 
So Ihave my cigar. 
“Some minds are often tost 
By tempests like a tar; 
I always seem in port, 
So I have my cigar. 
“The ardent flame of love 
My bosom cannot char, ' 
I smoke but do not burn, 
SoI have my cigar. 
“They tell me Nancy Low 
Has married Mr. R.; 
The jilt! but I can live, 
So Ihave my cigar.” 
Lord Byron, a “good smoker” as well as a great poet, has 
immortalized his love of the cigar in the following graceful 
lines :— 
“Sublime Tobacco! which from east to west, 
Cheers the tars labors, and the Turkman’s rest— 
Which on the Moslem’s ottoman divides 
His hours, and rivals opium and his brides ; 
Magnificent in Stamboul, but less grand, 
Though not less loved in Wapping or the Strand; 
Divine in hookhas, glorious in a pipe, 
When tipped with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe, 
Like other charms, wooing the caress 
More dazzingly when dawning in full dress. 
Yet thy true lovers more admire by far 
Thy naked beauties—Give me a Cigar !” 
