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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. by Wallace Irwin
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Again to the Tobacconist's I came
And stood among the Stogies and Cigars.



LXXXIII



Some were whose Scent exhaled the Asphodel,
And some whose Smoke gave forth a roseate Smell,
And some poor Weeds that told you at a Whiff
How they were made to Give Away, not Sell.



LXXXIV



One said, "And can no wiser Law revoke
The Edict that foredestined me to Smoke,
My stump to be a Byword and a Jest? -
But if a Jest I fail to see the Joke."



LXXXV


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