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Show FAREWELL TO ABSINTHE. Absintho will not bo permitted in New York after- October 1st, It" having hav-ing been decided that it is not a drink. News Item. The opalescent verdant booze i We sipped of yore In pure co'nttmt, i f No more for us Its way will ooze, , ; And ever-changing hues present. , v The mighty who effect our lawsj 5 For some strange reason I qan't think, ' i Have said, from out their wooKrJm-med wooKrJm-med jaws, That absinthe sure is "not a drink." : And so I scratch my worried pfitg, With puzzledom I sit replete ' I Please won't they say, at any rate, If it is something good to eat?' And if 'tis "not a drink," why, then, j Where, hayseeds, pray, may be the J , harm It does unto the city men?' Where lurks your logical alarm? i I loved to sip at early eve I My Pernod with congenial friends, I But when our rulers sin conceive I All current pleasure quickly ends. Ye legislators set the pace j Of folly, and one needs must sneer; We may not drink, we must not race How long ere you forbid us beer? The Toper. |