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JANUARY	A
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Now Time the harvester surveys	B
His sorry crops of yesterdays	B
Of trampled hopes and reaped regrets	C
And for another harvest whets	C
His ancient scythe eying the while	D
The budding year with cynic smile	D
Well let him smile in snug retreat	E
I fill my pipe with honeyed sweet	E
Whose incense wafted from the bowl	F
Shall make warm sunshine in my soul	F
And conjure mid the fragrant haze	C
Fair memories of other days	C
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FEBRUARY	A
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Bend you now before the shrine	G
Of the good Saint Valentine	G
Show to him your broken heart	H
Pray the Saint to take your part	H
Should he intercede in vain	I
And the maid your heart disdain	I
Call upon Saint Nicotine	J
He will surely intervene	J
Bring burnt off'ring to his feet	E
Incense of Havana sweet	E
Then the maiden's shade invoke	K
It will disappear in smoke	K
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MARCH	L
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Here comes bluff March a cross between	J
A Jester and a Libertine	J
He loves to make the parson race	C
With wicked words his hat to chase	C
To dye with compromising rose	C
The pious man's abstemious nose	C
The ladies hate him though he shows	C
A pretty taste for silken hose	C
The smoker views him with distrust	M
Shielding his last match from his gust	M
But once alight his holy joy	N
No blast from Heaven can destroy	N
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APRIL	O
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Lady April it is clear	P
Is the spoilt child of the Year	P
See her tears about to start	H
Thus she melts old Winter's heart	H
Now the gay deceiving thing	Q
Turns and plays the deuce with Spring	Q
Winter lingers at her gate	R
Spring grows chilly and irate	R
I'd go home if I were he	A
It is just such girls as she	A
Make a fellow thank his stars	C
For the solace of cigars	C
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MAY	S
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Like Brunhilda May is won	T
By the kisses of the Sun	T
Siegfried like the maid he takes	C
In his arms and she awakes	C
To the tender piping sound	U
Of the birds while all around	U
In a magic fire ring	Q
Purple flames of Crocus spring	Q
Now I fill my fragrant briar	V
Lo it glows with gentle fire	V
Wafting scented wreaths of love	W
To the little leaves above	W
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JUNE	X
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What so rare as a day in June	X
Thus I heard the poet croon	X
To the month of roses sweet	E
His song with barometric feet	E
Perfect days I own are rare	Y
All depends on how you fare	Y
Can a day be perfect to	Z
The rose that has not sipped the dew	Z
Can the Bee do you suppose	C
Hum that has not sipped the rose	C
Can there be for Man I say	C
Without a smoke a perfect day	C
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JULY	A2
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Red rockets skyward rush pell mell	B2
And fill the night with noise and smell	B2
The stars of Heaven look down and say	C
So this is Independence Day	C
Poor earth born stars it makes us sad	C2
To see your fire work like mad	C2
To make a Human Holiday	C
Where is your independence pray	C
Whereat I woke my fire was low	D2
My pipe was out Said I Heigho	A
I never thought of it that way	C
I'll give them both a holiday	C
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AUGUST	M
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Drowsing o'er my sainted briar	V
Dreaming dreams of Heart's Desire	V
Dreaming 'neath the August sun	T
Thus my meditations run	T
What if that great Ember bright	E2
Were a monster Pipe alight	E2
Or the glowing from afar	F2
Of some Fire God's cigar	F2
If the Smoker's Peace abide	G2
In that sun fire multiplied	G2
By its vastness I will be	A
Henceforth a devout Parsee	C
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SEPTEMBER	V
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As the smoker sometimes sees	C
In Nicotian reveries	C
Features of some Lovely Girl	H2
In the tinted wreaths that curl	H2
From his pipe so as we gaze	C
Through the soft September haze	C
In the years' calm afternoon	X
Red with summer's ashes strewn	X
Through the tender veil of mist	I2
Woven gold and amethyst	I2
Summer's charming ghost we see	C
Decked in Indian panoply	C
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OCTOBER	V
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Say October how in thunder	V
Do you keep so young I wonder	V
You're no chicken and you know it	J2
Yet old man for all you show it	J2
You might on a sunny day	C
Pass for April or for May	C
See your house is falling round you	Z
Yet you're laughing say confound you	Z
What's the secret How'd you do it	J2
Mist and moisture Ah I knew it	J2
A pipe A mug October brew	Z
Fill up October here's to you	Z
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NOVEMBER	V
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Who's that pedler at the door	K2
What November back once more	K2
Why it seems but yesterday	C
That he took himself away	C
Say I'm out Tell him to go	D2
He has nothing new to show	D2
Same old lay out every trip	L2
Same Pneumonia same old Grippe	L2
Same old Hard Luck tales to tell	B2
Same Thanksgiving Day oh well	B2
Show him in then stir the log	M2
And bring church warden pipes and grog	N2
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DECEMBER	V
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Proudly beams the Christmas Tree	C
In its tinsel finery	C
Round and round in sprightly pairs	C
Children dance to old time airs	C
Though they laugh they make no sound	U
Dancing still they tread no ground	U
Naught but airy phantoms they	C
Of a vanished Christmas Day	C
Ancient playmates found again	O2
In a smoke wreath's purple skein	I
And they whisper in my ear	P2
Does Christmas still come once a year	P