1 In Canton Valois, i have read or heard.
2 Exists prohibition of it a ase in Youth :
3 A man must wait until he gets a beard
4 Before lie smoke*. And ‘tis a well-known truth
5 That James the First, of England (“ the absurd")
6 Tried force, to put Tobacco down; forsooth,
7 A silly trick, in that pedantic king ;
8 As Englishmen, by'force, will u u do anything
9 •r:..- v> vA
10 Sultan Ataurad die Fourth, to death condemned
11 All smokers of Tobacco. And that great man
12 Baba Kvnnk, whose oftdofct 1 commend.
13 By .i religious obligation, formed a plan
14 To keep it. from the Sikhs; he did forqfend
15 That poisonous weed, and through tile nation ran
16 His interdiction ; e’en as a remedy for pain.
17 All efforts to administer the oed, prove vain
18 The so-called barbarous Sikh, preserves Ion raer
19 Against the noxious plant; while boasting Europe trie
20 To iucreaso its filthy us© ; Governments have the face.
21 In spite of health, to form nut no pi lies
22 Of this moat baneful weed— What. a disgrace 1
23 F,'en England's Eulers (omuion-seiise defies.
24 Bartering (by Acts ol Tarlkdiuntl tho health
25 Of . whole people, fora little wealth!
26 V '' Jt'fiWjBTi ‘ '' V.Y'’ ' '.'Jfifflfal ‘wtUBnuBufi
27 Ml.
28 Able physicians often have asserted,
29 Bv snuffing up I'oha<:c<\ also smoking.
30 The plant is from its true use much perverted.
31 In the fair-sex it ever is provoking
32 Sensations of disgust—in short, it is diverted
33 From Nature's purpose! and I end. invoking
34 The Genius of the British Isles, to banish hence
35 Custom; so contrary to Common-sense !
36 J. M. 1.1.
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