Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE PIPE OF PEACE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY


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First Line: What is the magic
Last Line: The marriage ceremony?
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Marriage; Peace; Smoking; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes


WHAT is the magic
Of a corncob pipe?
No matter how peevish or irritable
My husband may be,
When he is smoking his Missouri meerschaum
He will do anything I ask.
Couldn't something about corncob pipes
Be put in
The marriage ceremony?





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