Lapsus Calami (Apr 1891)/To One Smoking

by James Kenneth Stephen

For other versions of this work, see To One That Smokes.

I. Of F. W. H. M.

 

1. To One that smokes.

Spare us the hint of slightest desecration,
Spotless preserve us an untainted shrine;
Not for thy sake, oh goddess of creation,
Not for thy sake, oh woman, but for mine.