Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SM0KING SONG, FR. MARDI, by HERMAN MELVILLE


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First Line: Care is all stuff
Last Line: Puff! Puff!
Variant Title(s): Pipe Song
Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes


Care is all stuff: --
Puff! Puff!
To puff is enough: --
Puff! Puff!
More musky than snuff,
And warm is a puff: --
Puff! Puff!
Here we sit mid our puffs,
Like old lords in their ruffs,
Snug as bears in their muffs: --
Puff! Puff!
Then puff, puff, puff,
For care is all stuff,
Puffed off in a puff. --
Puff! Puff!





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