Excerpt from Blue Lights, or the Convention: A Poem, in Four Cantos

A su¿icient canm sidered as defects, the writer must plead precedent in excuse, for if it is defective in plot, ungrammatical in language, or improbable in incident, his celebrated namesake, so universally admired, is guilty of the same faults. He is conscious also that the late date of his subject is far from being a recommendation. The. Dark tint of time which gives to a capper coin, worth by weight three-pence-halfpenny, an inestimable value, is also necessary to give value to a poem. Like fresh venison, it is of little price: but after lying in the gene: till green with age, it excites the warmest approbation user me! With delight. Ophers of Europe have decided tint Americ mg a country to deserve notice, and should ot she wanting to establish the assertion, be it kno he Prince Regent of our mother country, who 1h and ex-oficio, a prime judge in matters of test msionate admirer, alike of old brandy and _e.

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