Minor Queries.
_English Sapphics._--Can any of your readers furnish a list of the best
specimens of the English sapphic metre in the English language?--Every
one is familiar with Canning's _Needy Knife Grinder_, in the poetry of
the _Anti-Jacobin_, but I do not believe Dr. Watts's beautiful sapphic
lines are as well known as they deserve. I have not a copy of them by
me, but I give the first stanza from memory:
"When the fierce North Wind, with his airy forces,
Rears up the Baltic to a foaming fury,
And the red lightning, with a storm of hail, comes
Rushing amain down."