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Illustrator: Benjamin Franklin

Illustrated by Benj. Franklin

LEEDON PUBLISHING COMPANY 405 FLOOD BUILDING SAN FRANCISCO

THE RUBAIYAT OF OHOW DRYYAM

OMAR

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Wail! for the Law has scattered into flight Those Drinks that were our sometime dear Delight; And still the Morals-tinkers plot and plan New, sterner, stricter Statutes to indite.

After the phantom of our Freedom died Methought a Voice within the Tavern cried: "Drink coffee, Lads, for that is all that's left Since our Land of the Free is washed--and dried."

The Haigs indeed are gone, and on the Nose That bourgeoned once with color of the rose A deathly Pallor sits, while down the lane Where once strode Johnny Walker--Water goes.

Come, fill the Cup, and in the Coffee-house We'll learn a new and temperate Carouse-- The Bird of Time flies with a steadier wing But roosts with sleepless Eye--a Coffee Souse!

Each morn a thousand Recipes, you say-- Yes, but where match the beer of Yesterday? And those Spring Months that used to bring the Bock Seem very long ago and far away.

A Book of Blue Laws underneath the Bough, A pot of Tea, a piece of Toast,--and Thou Beside me sighing in the Wilderness-- Wilderness? It's Desert, Sister, now.

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