OVER a pipe the Angel of Conversation
Loosens with glee the tassels of his purse,
And, in a fine spiritual exaltation,
Hastens, a rosy spendthrift, to disburse
The coins new minted of imagination.
An amiable, a delicate animation
Informs our thoughts, and earnest we rehearse
The sweet old farce of mutual admiration
Over a pipe.
Heard in this hour-s delicious divagation
How soft the song! the epigram how terse!
With what a genius for admiration
We rearrange the rumbling universe,
And map the course of man’s regeneration
Over a pipe!
William Ernest Henley.
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