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Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)

CHAPTER XVII
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In every puff, off flies a care." "Ay, there they go," cried Mohi, "there goes another--and, there, and there;--this is the way to get rid of them my worshipful lord; puff them aside." "Yoomy," said Media, "give us that pipe song of thine.

Sing it, my sweet and pleasant poet.

We'll keep time with the flageolets of ours." "So with pipes and puffs for a chorus, thus Yoomy sang:-- Care is all stuff:-- Puff! Puff: To puff is enough:-- Puff! Puff! More musky than snuff, And warm is a puff:-- Puff! Puff! Here we sit mid our puffs, Like old lords in their ruffs, Snug as bears in their muffs:-- Puff! Puff! Then puff, puff, puff; For care is all stuff, Puffed off in a puff:-- Puff! Puff! "Ay, puff away," cried Babbalanja, "puff; puff, so we are born, and so die.

Puff, puff, my volcanos: the great sun itself will yet go out in a snuff, and all Mardi smoke out its last wick." "Puffs enough," said King Media, "Vee-Vee! haul down my flag.

There, lie down before me, oh Gonfalon! and, subjects, hear,--when I die, lay this spear on my right, and this pipe on my left, its colors at half mast; so shall I be ambidexter, and sleep between eloquent symbols.".


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