 | Edwin O. Chapman - American poetry - 1884 - 430 pages
...Was but the height of prudent art To deal with greater liberty her heart. Aphra Behn, 163o-'8 THIS Indian weed, now withered quite Though green at noon,...lily-like and weak, Does thus thy mortal state bespeak 5 Thou art e'en such, — Gone with a touch : Thus think, and smoke tobacco. And when the smoke ascends... | |
 | English wit and humor - 1889 - 366 pages
...tobacco.* Th« most usually accepted version runs as follows I—- THE Indian weed withered quite, Green at noon, cut down at night, Shows thy decay, — All flesh is hay : Thus think, then drink tobacco. The pipe that is so lily-white, Shows thee to be a mortal wight, And even such,... | |
 | Robert Bell - Ballads, English - 1885 - 490 pages
...that the natives of India to this day use the phrase 'hooka peue,' to drink the hooka.] PART I. THIS Indian weed, now withered quite, Though green at noon,...weak, Does thus thy mortal state bespeak; Thou art e'en such, — Gone with a touch : Thus think, and smoke tobacco. And when the smoke ascends on high,... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1886 - 188 pages
...Jenner : — THIS Indian weed — now wither'd quite, Though green at noon— cut down at night, Shews thy decay, All flesh is hay — Thus think and smoke tobacco. The pipe so lily white and weak Doth thus thy mortal state bespeak, Thou art e'en such Gone with a touch ! —... | |
 | Matthew Canfield Read - Indians of North America - 1888 - 132 pages
...stanza of a moralizing tobacco-drinking poet, of the time of James I.: " The Indian weed withered quite, Green at noon, cut down at night, Shows thy decay — all flesh is hay. Thus think, then drink tobacco." These quotations help to an understanding of the use of tubes for smoking, and... | |
 | Home economics - 1889 - 332 pages
...better : PART I. This Indian weed now wither'd quite, Though green at noon, cut down at night Shows by decay ! All flesh is hay. Thus think and smoke tobacco. The pipe, so lily like and weak, Does thus thy mortal state bespeak. Thou art ev'n such, Gone with a touch. Thus... | |
 | Walter Learned - American poetry - 1891 - 404 pages
...Polly ! — Polly ! — The cows are in the corn ! Oh, where's Polly ? RW GILDER. THE INDIAN WEED. THIS Indian weed, now withered quite, Though green at noon,...weak, Does thus thy mortal state bespeak ; Thou art e'en such — Gone with a touch : Thus think, and smoke tobacco. And when the smoke ascends on high,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Readers - 1894 - 524 pages
...being an Old Meditation upon Smoking Tobacco." It begins — This Indian weed now withered quite, Tho' green at noon, cut down at night, Shows thy decay...All flesh is hay. Thus think, and smoke tobacco.] Trusses : seizes and carries off. " I do guess as much," replied Diana ; " and shrewdly suspect, moreover,... | |
 | Tobacco - 1895 - 220 pages
...march, a merry march, To meet the coming days ! HP PECK. TOBACCO. THE Indian weed, withered quite, Green at noon, cut down at night, Shows thy decay; all flesh is hay, Thus thinke, then drinke tobacco. The pipe that is so lily-white, Shows thee to be a mortal wight ; And... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1895 - 434 pages
...Dekker. CCLXXXIX A RELIGIOUS USE OF TAKING TOBACCO THE Indian weed withered quite ; Green at morn, cut down at night; Shows thy decay; all flesh is hay: Thus think, then drink tobacco. And when the smoke ascends on high, Think thou beholds the vanity Of worldly stuff;... | |
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Thou art e'en such, — Gone with a touch. Thus think, and smoke tobacco. And when the smoke ascends on high, Then thou beholdst the vanity Of worldly stuff, Gone with a puff. Thus think, and smoke tobacco. 
