The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-09-16
THOMAS MOORE's
Epjflss, Odes, sTe.
"a NEW runLIcArIoN)


The good people of Virginia may remember THAI
lone time iinee ,h, little Cock Sparrow of fongaer
came hopping acrefs the Atlantic fling his aniours
m the wilds oil America-As we had fern nothing of
the kind 70 ehirpng aud 70 light, he was much no,-
eed and admired. aud every one was delighted to
hear the little bird chrrup his Creek--he could
make rhymes on any and every Efle th;ns--a Nofe.
an Eye. Cheek, Curl, Lip, tn. tip Of an Ear.
little Fly, Flee, or Knst's Toe Nail enchanted
h'm-he looked like being born in Jelly ylals
handed round on cake, fed on fpssr plnmb.. and
educated among the dreams Of fgsy--,he s,ie for;t
could hide hmeli under lady's eye lah and expire
with dehght-'n ms o'tes he gets into 4 million of
iersPes, jumps from tcndrii, hides in a curI fin.
from hP, perches on bofpn, tunnbes from mir
gets onthe edge OF many precpce w,hou, falling o.
yer, & to the mouths OF dreadful cavern, ~,bon,
bling i"--always iineng, fghing aud evapora,iug--
ore would think he had rhoufand foul. CHARGED
from has electric fancy, each ready to Ay y,hou,
cinea.
AMERICA, il feen,s, afforded this pr.t,v f,,,,,
many oftheie vifionary delights, and he had MANY
opportunities OF dying Unexpectedly a, Bermuda: bur
tns little migrate no fooner gets home than he bepu,
to abpie us-in Note to his Poeu,s he fays, The
women OF Bermuda are no, generally hapdfome bn,
!ney nave an aifectonae langour in heir look which
shtereiting-they have pre-dlpoftiou TO hvirr.
which, without being awakened by any par,;rrIsr
object, diifuies mie through the general manner in
tone that nevar fails to faIipate The men Of rho
'fand are not very civilized, and the old nh;lof,
piers who imagined that after this life, men would
be changed into H4nlci, and zvowsa into Turtle Dou.,
would md the metaa,orPhofs in forpe degree anti.
eipa,ed at Bermuda !" of JpTNir07 AMI Mr., O.
hgr, that has produced 70 many men erea, in eienr.
particularly III politics and oratory he fays Thi,
college gave me but melancholy idea of republican
ieats OF learning, The contempt for the eegane;e
% euuea',oh IS no where more grofsly csnfpouou,
than IN Virginia The level!ing fyt(em is applied 70
eaueaeon' and has all the effect which its partizans
could deiire, by producing mon ex.eniive eousi,y
., ,s""' 80 -: - ~ TN. piinou ran.
at me morals too of the place---Of poor NorSU
which is the threhold over which all travellers fnm
BILE, he fays--
Norfolk 1t mutt be owned, is an unfortunate foe
eimen OF America The chara&eri9ics of Virginia
~ general are not iuch as delight either the poll
tieas or the moralift, and Norfolk they are exb;
oted in their Leap attractive FORM a, the time tba,
we arrived, the yellow fever had not then difappear
ed and every orr that aailed us in the reet, VERY
tgroney accounted for it's visation IL i, in ,,y,b
msR @agrttade elae, and the bcft the Journalia or
Geographer can lay Of it, is that il abounds i. Dse,
Nte,oF'' and IN DemsrratI." IF there is no truth
IN thcie remarks OF Moore, ought to pity him in
'tead ct being angry with hinor he was 70 near 70
the ground tina: every odour alaied him with doubl.
ehect, and he had fuch microlcopic ewes tina, h.
could fee worms in the fairea face bu, he cou,d NO;
ther lee any thing large write any fubiea tia,
required eapselous mental furrey--he ufed to al.
where were our Poess--had we any ; We had fcarce
iongiter among US - He was afraid to lock a, thar
terrible irnmbullf with his "Sword trenchant. /"
Dwighs Ode Voice was TOO Arcng to whif,er inn
becities to the flsxen locks of ideal heau,vHar
low would have rolled hiu in one corner of M,nco
CaRae,s white robet to fcreen his fra form from the
warning winds of the Andes, and Humphrey'sH would
have fent him failing adrift little toy ip to iing
tOufrS RI lief l,,a., nh. q
but all thefe adventures, Moore, from the neen,r
itrutture of his eyes. happily avoided, and he is m
hafiy flying from lip to lip with his wings all drip
S' iv ;.o'iry POT OF AGacreon aud his bill full
oti"eet meats Tor the pretty COokoos OF Poetry
NOTES.
See T,vnaJuii's lzme F;nsai
T D7pig6f' CoH7H5f Of Canaan Sa, faikd Int B..
.ss' 1"gHai'n1bty tie ioa end 5sR 0I s9lfr Of bi,
| Hme
See Ba'io:O. f1S'iVe 3sSr TO tie 7ep sft6. Auss,,
in TIE Yjfon Of Ceipmbus.
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