Tea - the cups that cheer but not inebriate.

Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,- A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.

Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys: Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours.

No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

And diff'ring judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where.

Religion, richest favor of the skies.