Classic Poem

ON READING GRIM'S ATTACK UPON CLINTON

'T is the opinion of the town
That Grim 's a silly elf:
In trying to write Clinton down,
He went right down himself .

ON HEARING THAT MORSE DID NOT " INVENT " THE TELEGRAPH

First they said it would not do;
But, when he got through it,
Then they vowed they always knew
That he didn 't do it!
Lies are rolling stones, of course,
But they can't adhere to Morse .