Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, 1843, Vol. 21
Thin, bony mirror of the mind! Its virtues and its vices, I own, in thy re?ective power, There 's something that entices; The world may now no longer dread Each knave that strives to trick it, Since we may read on every head Dame Nature's moral ticket.' The entire poem from which these lines are taken bears evidence of having been struck off on the Spur of the moment; and although we are not prepared to my that as a whole it might not be improved by careful revision, yet it imbodies passages of great beauty, which to segregate would be to spoil. One only extract we annex.
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