Apollo.

“ Nostra nec erubuit domos habitare Thalia.”

     From the Boston Gazette.

              A SONG,
SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BY
    THE SAGE OF MONTICELLO.

Et etiam fusco grata colore Venus.   OVID.
         Tune Yankee Doodle.

Of all the damsels on the green,
    On mountain, or in valley,
A lass so luscious ne’er was seen
    As Monticellian Sally.
    
        Yankee doodle, who’s the noodle?
            What wife were half so handy?
        To breed a flock, of slaves for stock,
            A blackamoor’s the dandy.

Search every town and city through,
    Search market, street and alley ;
No dame at dusk shall meet your view,
    So yielding as my Sally.
    Yankee doodle, &c.

When press’d by loads of state affairs,
    I seek to sport and dally,
The sweetest solace of my cares
    Is in the lap of Sally.
    Yankee doodle, &c.

Let Yankey parsons preach their worst–
    Let tory Witling’s rally !
You men of morals! and be curst,
    You’d snap like sharks for Sally.
    Yankee doodle, &c.

She’s black you tell me–grant she be–
    Must colour always tally ?
Black is love’s proper hue for me–
    And white’s the hue for Sally.*
    Yankee doodle, &c.

What though she by the glands secretes ;
    Must I stand shill–I shall–I ?
Tuck’d up between a pair of sheets
    There’s no perfume like Sally‡
    Yankee doodle,&c.

You call her slave–and pray were slaves
    Made only for the galley ?
Try for yourselves, ye witless knaves–*
    Take each to bed your Sally.

        Yankee doodle, who’s the noodle ?
            Wine’s vapid, tope me brandy–
        For still I find to breed my kind,
            A negro-wench the dandy !

    * It appears that neither of the lovers agree with our
Milton, who represents the angel Raphael, upon being
asked the question whether the Heavenly Spirits Love!
answering    
            “With a smile that glow’d
    “ Celestial rosy RED, love’s proper hue.”
But de gustibus non disputandum–The Monticellian lo-
vers are not altogether angels.

    ‡ They (the blacks) secrete less by the kidnies, and
more by the glands of the skin, which gives them a ve-
ry strong and disagreable odor.
                    Notes on Virginia, page 205.