VERSES

ON TWO CELEBRATED MODERN POETS.

BEHOLD, those monarch oaks, that rise,
With lofty branches, to the skies,
Have large proportion'd roots that grow
With equal longitude below:
Two bards, that now in fashion reign,
Most aptly this device explain :

If this to clouds and stars will venture,
That creeps as far to reach the centre;
Or, more to show the thing I mean,
Have you not o'er a sawpit seen
A skill'd mechanic, that has stood
High on a length of prostrate wood,
Who hir'd a subterraneous friend
To take his iron by the end;
But which excell'd was never found,
The man above, or under ground.

The moral is so plain to hit,

That, had I been the god of wit,
Then, in a sawpit and wet weather,

Should Young and Philips drudge together.*

*This is to be understood as a censure only of the poetical character of those gentlemen. As men, the Dean esteemed them both; and on Philips in particular conferred many signal acts of friendship. N.

UPON CARTHY'S* THREATENING TO
TRANSLATE PINDAR.

You have undone Horace,-what should hinder
Thy Muse from falling upon Pindar ?
But ere you mount his fiery steed,
Beware, O Bard, how you proceed:-
For should you give him once the reins,
High up in air he'll turn your brains;
And if you should his fury check,
'Tis ten to one he breaks your neck.

DR. SWIFT WROTE THE FOLLOWING EPIGRAM ON ONE DELACOURT'S COMPLIMENTing Carthy, A SCHOOL MASTER, ON HIS POETRY.

CARTHY, you say, writes well-his genius true;
You pawn your word for him—he'll vouch for you.
So two poor knaves, who find their credit fail,
To cheat the world, become each other's bail.

* Carthy, a scribbling schoolmaster, wrote some severe lines on Dr. Swift and his friends. F.

END OF THE ELEVENTH VOLUME.

OCT 17 1916

C. 8. VAN WINKLE, PRINTER,

Water-street, New-York.