SOLUTION TO THE REBUS.
Achilles is the Greek whom fate decreed,
Without whose aid old Greece should ne’er succeed:
Delphos the God of Music’s birth does claim,
And Rhadamanthus judged Hell’s domain.
The Iris designates the ceasing storm,
And Freedom in America was born.
Newton the works of Nature brought to light;
The crescent moon does oft illume the night:
Echo’s the nymph who rides upon the air,
Whose voice responds to joy or fell despair.
War despots do oppose to Reason’s laws;
Ida’s the mount where Venus gain’d her cause.
Night is the time when Nature does repose,
And in Trophonius’ cave smiles never glows.
Elijah was translated to the skies;
Reason, Columbia’s sons do greatly prize:
A tempest o’erclouds the orb of sight:
The Owl’s a bird peculiar to the night.
New-York’s the City where such worth doth shine!
Whose Laws are fram’d on principles divine.
Blanchard’s the Æronaut, of skill and fame;
And Rome once mistress of the world did reign.
Ovid did sing the various arts of love;
And through their orbs the planets yearly move:
Kissing, a mutual pleasure does impart,
And sympathy does warm each feeling heart.
The initials when we rightly thus combine,
Miss Adriance Winterton and Brooks define.