EPIGRAM.
Premising that DIVINE POETA! is to be literally rendered POETIC DIVINE, we address Dr. Booker in the words of Virgil,—
“Tale tuum nobis carmin, divine poeta!
Quale sopor—”
See Rev. of Dr. Booker’s Calista, Ann. Rev. 1803, p. 564.
It has been said, we know, there but appears
One Epic Poet in a thousand years:
But B—k—r lives to prove the thing untrue;
And to demonstrate that there may be two.