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Title: The Smoker's Year Book
Author: Oliver Herford
Illustrator: Sewell Collins
Release Date: October 2, 2007 [EBook #22825]
Language: English
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THE SMOKER'S YEAR BOOK
_The verses written on paper by_
Oliver Herford
&
_The pictures drawn on stone by_
Sewell Collins
[Illustration]
The whole published by
MOFFAT, YARD & COMPANY NEW YORK 1908
_Copyright, 1908, by_ MOFFAT, YARD & COMPANY
NEW YORK
_All rights reserved_
_Published, October, 1908_
JANUARY
Now Time the harvester surveys
His sorry crops of yesterdays;
Of trampled hopes and reaped regrets,
And for another harvest whets
His ancient scythe, eying the while
The budding year with cynic smile.
Well, let him smile; in snug retreat
I fill my pipe with honeyed sweet,
Whose incense wafted from the bowl
Shall make warm sunshine in my soul,
And conjure mid the fragrant haze
Fair memories of other days.
[Illustration]
[Illustration]
FEBRUARY
Bend you now before the shrine
Of the good Saint Valentine.
Show to him your broken heart--
Pray the Saint to take your part.
Should he intercede in vain
And the maid your heart disdain,
Call upon Saint Nicotine;
He will surely intervene.
Bring burnt off'ring to his feet,
Incense of Havana, sweet.
Then the maiden's shade invoke,
It will disappear in smoke!
[Illustration]
[Illustration]
MARCH
Here comes bluff March--a cross between
A Jester and a Libertine.
He loves to make the parson race
With wicked words his hat to chase;
To dye with compromising rose
The pious man's abstemious nose.
The ladies hate him, though he shows
A pretty taste for silken hose.
The smoker views him with distrust,
Shielding
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