The following lines were written by Mr. Hayley, on a Card inclosed in a work'd letter-case, embroidered by Mrs. Hayley, as a present to Miss Seward. One side represented a lyre; the other a wreath of laurel.
Go, graceful symbols of poetick fire, What Friendship's needle has with pleasure trac'd; Go! thou embroider'd wreath, and Muse's lyre, A gift to Genius, from the hand of Taste. Thou silken volume, by Eliza wrought, When Seward's verse is treasur'd in thy folds, Shield that bright charge, — and may thy form be thought A casket worthy of the gem it holds!
