• Inscribed to R. Aiken, Esq.
     “Let not ambition mock their useful toil,
      Their homely joys and destiny obscure;
    Nor grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile,
      The short but simple annals of the poor.”
    —GRAY.    

      MY loved, my honored, much-respected friend,
        No mercenary bard his homage pays:
      With honest pride I scorn each...