Written In The Album Of I---- H---- P----, Esq.

Dear P——, while Painters, Poets, Sages, Inscribe this volume's votive pages With partial friendship: why invite The tribute of a luckless wight Unknown—by wisdom or by wit Indulged with no certificate? Perchance, as in a diadem Glittering with many a radiant gem, Some mean metallic foil is placed Judicious, by the hand of taste; You seek, amidst the sons of fame, To set an undistinguish'd name? If so—that name is freely lent, A pebble to your gems—T. GENT.