31 MARCH 1838, Page 12

EPIGRAM.

'Tis said by poets of the golden ages, (And who can ever doubt these learned sages?)

That Music and the Healing Art combined,

Were once so intimately joined, By ligament Egyptian or Ephesian, Or by a membrane somewhat Siarnesian, That in their practice glorious Apollo Could challenge all the gods, and beat them hollow.

But the famed Philharmonics now having resolved That this intimate union at once be dissolved.

In this mut of iron or brass, just to fit ye,

Place your gods in th' Orchestra, your Quacks in Committee.

H. C.