Of the first, wine is the illustrious and immortal example.

Of those which must be kept and used I will name three,--meerschaum pipes, violins, and poems.

The meerschaum is but a poor affair until it has burned a thousand offerings to the cloud-compelling deities.

It comes to us without complexion or flavor,--born of the sea-foam, like Aphrodite, but colorless as pallida Mors herself.

The fire is lighted in its central shrine, and gradually the juices which the broad leaves of the Great Vegetable had sucked up from an acre and curdled into a drachm are diffused through its thirsting pores.