Citation - Pennsylvania Evening Post: 1775.05.23

PEP.775.030
23 May 1775:2081, 2082, 2091 (1/52)
ON THE FALL OF EMPIRES.*
[2 columns on politics]
[Verse inserted in text]
Go, like the sun, let bounty spread her ray, 
And shine your superfluity away--
To sinking worth a cordial hand, go lend;
With better fortune go surprise a friend;
. . . [6 more lines]
* Spoken by William Moore Smith. [At Commencement Exercises
of The College of Philadelphia]