Author : Anonymous
Release : 2013-09
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Book Synopsis A Smoker's Reveries; a Companion Book to Pipe and Pouch by : Anonymous
Download or read book A Smoker's Reveries; a Companion Book to Pipe and Pouch written by Anonymous. This book was released on 2013-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ... BLISS OF AN AFTER-DINNER CIGAR Oh, 'tis well enough A whiff or a puff From the heart of a pipe to get; And a dainty maid Or a budding blade May toy with the cigarette; But a man when the time Of a glorious prime Dawns forth like a morning star Wants the dark brown bloom And the sweet perfume That go with a good cigar. To lazily float In a painted boat On a shimmering morning sea, Or to flirt with a maid In the afternoon shade Seems good enough sport to be; But the evening hour With its subtle power Is sweeter and better far If joined to the joy Devoid of alloy That lurks in a good cigar. When a blanket wet Is solidly set O'er hopes prematurely grown; When ambition is tame And energy lame And the bloom from the fruit is blown; When to dance and dine With women and wine Past poverty's pleasures are, A man's not bereft Of all peace, if there's left The joy of a good cigar.--Pittsburg Dispatch. THE CHRISTMAS CIGAR1 The day after Christmas my little rear room Showed plainly Kris Kringle had lifted the latch, And generously emptied the half of his pack To brighten the den of a lonely old bach. It looked like the pick of a fancy goods store, Or the loot of a dozen or more of bazaars, With the pillows, and slippers, and headrests and steins, But what pleased me most was the box of cigars. There were photograph frames, there were mufflers of silk, And neckties of colours most weird to behold, And handkerchiefs, scarf-pins and books by the score, 1 Copyrighted by Judge Company, 1908. And match boxes, gun metal, silver and gold, And dressing gowns, crimson, and purple, and blue, And Christmas cards twinkling with spangles and stars, And things rigged with ribbons to hang on the wall, But nothing I liked like the box of cigars. When the worry and...