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A RELIGIOUS USE OF TAKING TOBACCO, by                    
First Line: The indian weed withered quite
Last Line: "thus think, then drink tobacco"
Variant Title(s): Pipe And Can: 1
Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco;pipes;cigars;cigarettes


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 behold'st the vanity
Of worldly stuff, gone with a puff:
Thus think, then drink Tobacco.

But when the pipe grows foul within,
Think of thy soul defiled with sin,
And that the fire doth it require:
Thus think, then drink Tobacco.

The ashes, that are left behind,
May serve to put thee still in mind
That unto dust return thou must:
Thus think, then drink Tobacco.




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