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 In painting, we have Trumbull's proud chef d'œuvre, Blending in one the funny and the fine: His "Independence" will endure for ever, And so will Mr. Allen's lottery-sign; And all that grace the Academy of Arts, From Dr. Hosack's face to Bonaparte's.

In architecture, our unrivalled skill Cullen's magnesian shop has loudly spoken To an admiring world; and better still Is Gautier's fairy palace at Hoboken. In music, we've the Euterpian Society, And amateurs, a wonderful variety.

In physic, we have Francis and McNeven, Famed for long heads, short lectures, and long bills; And Quackenboss and others, who from heaven Were rained upon us in a shower of pills; They'd beat the deathless Æsculapius hollow, And make a starveling druggist of Apollo.

And who, that ever slumbered at the Forum, But owns the first of orators we claim: