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MAY 1932 Lindsay Eugene Beaton
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MAY 1932 Lindsay Eugene Beaton

I light my cigarette,And watch the slow grey cloud curl in the air;And, if I smoke it not,Long the tobacco's glow will linger there.

And so with life. But who of all earth's folkWould light a cigarette and then not smoke?

—From Dartmouth Verse, 1930, copyrighted by the Arts.