Let not your annual tribute cease."
Although the merit of this poem lies much below mediocrity, in subject it is delightfully grotesque. Her style was varied and her pen strangely moody, judging from her productions extant. The following jeu d'esprit was written at the beginning of Jefferson's administration:
"AN EPIGRAM.
"Says William to Thomas I'll hold you a bet,
That the French are confoundedly frighted;
They thought that our Federal ships had o'erset,
But they find that they staunch are, and righted.
"They slighted our Pleno's and made a demand
That we a shameful tribute should pay them,