bed
among the most worthy of those who laboured to procure these invaluable
blessings" (page 170).

A complete list of the contributors to the _Port Folio_ would be the
history of literature in Philadelphia for the first quarter of this
century. The articles were almost never signed, and while the thin
disguises of assumed names are in most cases easily penetrable, some
that occur infrequently are only identified with much difficulty.

The last editor of the _Port Folio_, Mr. John E. Hall, published in 1826
"The Philadelphia Souvenir, a collection of fugitive pieces from the
Philadelphia press, with biographical and explanatory notes." The book
was intended to be "a sort of _cairn_ to the memory of the circle of
friends which Mr. Moore has commemorated in his immortal poems." The
commemoration to which Mr. Hall refers is found in Moore's "eighth
epistle," addressed "To the Honourable W. R. Spencer:"

Yet, yet forgive me, oh you sacred few,
Whom late by Delaware's green banks I knew;
Whom, known and lov'd through many a social eve,
'Twas bliss to live with, and 'twas pain to leave.
Not with more joy the lonely exile scann'd
The writing traced upon the desert sand,
Where his lone breast but little hop'd to find
One trace of life, one stamp of human kind,
Than did I hail the pure, th' enlightened zeal,
The strength to reason and the warmth to feel,
The manly polish and the illumin'd taste,
Which,--'mid the melancholy, heartless waste
My foot has travers'd,--oh you sacred few!
I found by Delaware's green banks with you.

The only pleasant memories of America that Thomas Moore carried back
with him to England were of the "nights of mirth and mind" spent "where
Schuylkill winds his way through banks of flowers." He was in
Philadelphia in the autumn of 1804, and was lionized by the _Port
Folio_; the eighth epistle in the "Poems Relating to America," from
which the lines above are quoted, was written at Buffalo, and it was
from Buffalo also that Moore sent to Dennie the manuscript of the
beautiful "Lines on Leaving Philadelphia," which was published in the
_Port Folio_ of August 31, 1805 (Vol. V, p. 271), and reprinted in
Brockden Brown's _Literary Magazine_, January, 1806 (Vol. III, p. 27).

LINES WRITTEN ON LEAVING PHILADELPHIA.

Alone by the Schuylkill a wanderer rov'd,
And bright were its flowery banks to his eye;
But far, very far were the friends that he lov'd,
And he