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To My Cigarette
note FRIENDS are changing, years are flying,Hopes are failing, love is dying.
Thou alone art faithful yet,
Cigarette, O cigarette.
Life's deceiving, fame betraying,
Nothing stays that's worth the staying.
Come and teach me to forget,
Cigarette, O cigarette.
Kiss me as thou knowest only;
Kiss the smoker, sad and lonely,—
Truest kiss the poor may get,
Cigarette, O cigarette.
Upward, like thy fumes ascending,
All my soul with nature blending,
May I pass without regret,
Cigarette, O cigarette.