JAMES SMITH.

(1775-1839.)

[LVI.] THE POET OF FASHION.

From the famous Rejected Addresses.

His book is successful, he's steeped in renown,

His lyric effusions have tickled the town;

Dukes, dowagers, dandies, are eager to trace

The fountain of verse in the verse-maker's face:

While, proud as Apollo, with peers tête-à-tête,