StoryTitle("caps", "Pipe and Can") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
I
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Indian weed witheréd quite; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Green at morn, cut down at night; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shows thy decay: all flesh is hay: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Thus think, then drink Tobacco. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And when the smoke ascends on high,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Think thou behold'st the vanity ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of worldly stuff, gone with a puff: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Thus think, then drink Tobacco. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But when the pipe grows foul within, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Think of thy soul defiled with sin,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And that the fire doth it require: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Thus think, then drink Tobacco. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The ashes, that are left behind, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "May serve to put thee still in mind ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That unto dust return thou must:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Thus think, then drink Tobacco. ", "") ?>
II
PoemLine("L0", "", "When as the chill Charokko blows, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And Winter tells a heavy tale; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When pyes and daws and rooks and crows ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sit cursing of the frosts and snows;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Then give me ale. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ale in a Saxon rumkin then, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Such as will make grimalkin prate; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bids valour burgeon in tall men, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Quickens the poet's wit and pen, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Despises fate. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ale, that the absent battle fights, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And frames the march of Swedish drum, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Disputes with princes, laws, and rights, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What's done and past tells mortal wights,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And what's to come. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ale, that the plowman's heart up-keeps ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And equals it with tyrants' thrones, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That wipes the eye that over-weeps, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And lulls in sure and dainty sleeps", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Th' o'er-wearied bones. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Grandchild of Ceres, Bacchus' daughter, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wine's emulous neighbour, though but stale, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ennobling all the nymphs of water, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And filling each man's heart with laughter—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Ha! give me ale! ", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>