“The sweetest rose that ever bloomed,
Was one that, with insidious sip,
Beneath Eliza’s smiles presumed,
To pilfer fragrance from her lip.”[302]
The same persistency which procured the publication of “The Two Roses” in the Pittsburgh Gazette, enabled “Recluse” a few years later to find a publisher for a volume of his poetry, in which “The Two Roses” was one of the gems.[303]
In one of the numbers of the magazine Judge Hugh Henry Brackenridge contributed a poem, descriptive of his feelings on revisiting Pittsburgh, called “On a Circuit at This Place.”
“What is there in this spot of earth
Repellant to all zest of mirth,
Heart-felt by me,
And which on being seen again,