title: Original Poems (fragment: A cool reflecting northern sage)
author: Henry Livingston Jr.
date: after Sep 1825
source: draft fragment on the same envelope as The Frog King (Sep 1825), in Livingston's hand. URL: https://www.henrylivingston.com/writing/poetry/originalpoems.htm (fetched via https://web.archive.org/web/20250522014529/https://www.henrylivingston.com/writing/poetry/originalpoems.htm)
form: iambic tetrameter (fragment)
lines: 13
attribution: certain
notes: Political fragment on Jackson; illegible words marked "x" in the site transcription (a wholly illegible line omitted). Shows the composition process.

A cool reflecting northern sage
It seems don't suit this reckless age
The sunburnt southrons one & all
For aqua fortis Jackson call
Declare his fire alone is able
To cleanse the Washingtonian stable
Till opposition can't be found

And as an apex to the whole
And then to close the rigamarole
x up a kidnap'd Seminole
For hickory bosoms x
To brush the cobwebs from the wall
And sweep the litter from the hall.