An Account of the Burning of Bachelor’s Hall

To the Publisher of the Pennsylvania Magazine

Fair Venus so often was miss’d from the skies,
And Bacchus as frequently absent likewise,
That the synod began to enquire out the reason,
Suspecting the culprits were plotting of treason.
At length it was found they had open’d a ball,
At a place by the mortals call’d Bachelors’ Hall;
Where Venus disclos’d ev’ry fun she couldthink of,
And Bacchus made nectar for mortals todrink of.
Jove highly displeased at such riotous doings
Sent time to reduce the whole building to ruins.
But time was so slack with his traces and dashes
That Jove in a passion consumed it to ashes.