[129] Written for the occasion, and sung in New York, July the fourth, 1805.
[130] Mud-pout and sucker are two kinds of fishes of little value, common enough in muddy streams. The otter pursues these with peculiar avidity.
[131] Wickapy is the popular name for a shrub, which is remarkably flexible.
[132] Virgil says “acquirit,” which not rhyming we use a substitute;
“For rhyme the rudder is of verses.”
[133] Sung at the Anniversary of the Mass. Hort. Society, Sept. 10, 1830.
[134] Hon. Elias Phinney.
[135] The lady, to whom these lines were addressed, had been offended at the insolence of the character who sat as the original for our picture.
[A] We preferred whales both for the docility and the rhyme’s sake.
[B] “Divine Nonsensia.”