AN ANSWER TO THE REBUS, BY THE AUTHOR OF THESE POEMS.

THE poet asks, and Phillis can’t refuse

To show th’ obedience of the Infant muse.

She knows the Quail of most inviting taste

Fed Israel’s army in the dreary waste;

And what’s on Britain’s royal standard borne,

But the tall, graceful, rampant Unicorn?

The Emerald with a vivid verdure glows

Among the gems which regal crowns compose;

Boston’s a town, polite and debonair,

To which the beaux and beauteous nymphs repair,

Each Helen strikes the mind with sweet surprise,

While living lightning flashes from her eyes,

See young Euphorbus of the Dardan line

By Manelaus’ hand to death resign:

The well known peer of popular applause

Is C——m zealous to support our laws.

Quebec now vanquish’d must obey,

She too much annual tribute pay

To Britain of immortal fame.

And add new glory to her name.