From “a Fable for Critics”
THERE are truths you Americans need to be told,
And it never ’ll refute them to swagger and scold;
John Bull, looking o’er the Atlantic, in choler.
At your aptness for trade, says you worship the dollar;
But to scorn i-dollar-try ’s what very few do,
And John goes to that church as often as you do.
No matter what...