MOORE’S EPIGRAM ON ABBOTT.
Mr. Speaker Abbott having spoken in slighting terms of some of Moore’s poems, the poet wrote, in return, the following biting epigram:
“They say he has no heart; but I deny it;
He has a heart—and gets his speeches by it.”
Mr. Speaker Abbott having spoken in slighting terms of some of Moore’s poems, the poet wrote, in return, the following biting epigram:
“They say he has no heart; but I deny it;
He has a heart—and gets his speeches by it.”