"Female Biography," page 217).

She wrote a parody upon Pope which was printed with Nathaniel Evans'
poems (1772):

How happy is the country parson's lot!
Forgetting bishops, as by them forgot;
Tranquil of spirit, with an easy mind,
To all his vestry's votes he sits resigned.
Of manners gentle and of temper even,
He jogs his flocks, with easy pace, to heaven.
In Greek and Latin pious books he keeps,
And, while his clerk sings psalms, he--soundly sleeps.
His garden fronts the sun's sweet orient beams,
And fat church-wardens prompt his golden dreams.
The earliest fruit in his fair orchard blooms,
And cleanly pipes pour out tobacco fumes.
From rustic bridegroom oft he takes the ring,
And hears the milkmaid plaintive ballads sing.
Back-gammon cheats whole winter nights away,
And Pilgrim's Progress helps a rainy day.

ALEXANDER WILSON was born in Paisley, Scotland, July 6, 1766, and died
in Philadelphia, August 23, 1813. "The Poems and Literary Prose of
Alexander Wilson" was edited by A. B. Grosart, and published at Paisley
in 1876. "With the exception of Allen Ramsay, Ferguson and Burns, none
of our Scottish vernacular poets have been so continuously kept in print
as Alexander Wilson" (Grosart). Seven biographies of him attest the
lively interest felt in his personality and his work. In Scotland he was
apprenticed to a weaver, and, after serving his time, he continued to
work at the loom for four years more. He published "Watty and Meg" in
1792, an anonymous poem, the authorship of which was commonly ascribed
to Robert Burns. He came to America in 1794, worked for a year at his
trade, and subsequently taught at various schools in Pennsylvania and
New Jersey. In 1802 he settled at Kingsessing, now in the city of
Philadelphia, close by the home of Bartram, the botanist. Here he taught
the "Union" School. It was in a picturesque spot. Before its doors were
cedars and "stripling poplars planted in a row, and old gray white
oaks."

But birds were more attractive to him than boys. They commanded him, as
the nightingale did the gypsy steward, and he followed them into
untrodden wildernesses. Thomas Bradford undertook to publish Wilson's
colossal "Ornithology." It was to be distinctly an "American" work. It
was to be printed on American paper; and Amies, the paper-maker, even
declared that he would use only "American" rags in making it. Seven
volumes appeared during the author's life, or be