"There's no clown from Walpole to Hell-Gate,
But ribaldry from him has learned to prate."
And again:
"Such is our Dennie! high exalted name,
Eager alike for dollars and for fame."
Two Philadelphians only escaped the sting of the adder:
"With Clifton, Nature's poet, who shall vie?
Though low he lies, his works shall never die.
And Linn, distinguish'd for his moral lays,
Shall, by his strain, Columbia's triumph raise."
"The Sketches in Verse" was magnificently printed for C. and A. Conrad by Smith and Maxwell in 1810.
To "a pastoral love-ditty" that began—
"Where Schuylkill o'er his rocky bed
Roars, like a bull in battle"—
Rose appended the note:
"Our American names, although some of them are truly savage, are not much worse than many of those with which we might be furnished by other nations in abundance; and Schuylkill would not have offended the ears of Boileau more than the Whal and the Leck, the Issel and the Zuiderzee."