Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Portrait: A Poem Delivered Before the Washington Benevolent Society of Newburyport, on the Evening of October 27, 1812
Why does the eye, with greater pleasure, rest On the proud oak, in vernal honours drest, When sultry gales, that to his arms repair.
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