Citation - Norwich Packet: 1777.01.05

NP.777.001
5 Jan 1777:41 (4/171)
As mushrooms in a night are grown,
Or as the thistle-springs unsown;
As weeds dart up at nature's call;
So rose a plant in desert soil:
. . . [14 couplets.  Then not clear if this is the same 
poem] 
In nature's works, we have beheld,
Some cloath'd in rage, some lac'd with gold,
We see the sailor leave the shore,
We sail th' extensive ocean deep.
. . . [10 couples signed]  A. Mechanick.