The "Health," written by Edward C. Pinkney, whom Edgar Allen Poe placed first in his estimate of lyric poets of America, is said to have been inspired by her in 1824. "I fill this cup to one made up of loveliness alone, A woman, of her gentle sex the seeming paragon, To whom the better elements and kindly stars have given A form so fair that, like the air, 'tis less of earth than heaven. "Her every tone is music's own, like those of morning birds, And something more than melody dwells ever in her words; The coinage of her heart are they, and from her lips each flows, As one may see the burthened bee forth issue from the rose. "Of her bright face one glance will trace a picture on the brain, And of her voice, in echoing hearts a sound must long remain; And memory such as mine of her so very much endures, When death is nigh, my latest sigh will not be life's, but hers. "Affections are as naught to her, the measure of her hours; Her feelings have the fragrancy, the freshness of young flowers. And lovely passions, changing oft, so fill her, she appears The image of themselves by turns the idol of past years. "I filled this cup to one made up of loveliness alone, A woman, of her gentle sex the seeming paragon. Her health! And would on earth there stood some more of such a frame, That life might be all poetry and weariness a name." She went to school at Mrs. Hayward's seminary, and later to Mr. Kirk. She also attended a dancing-school that gave exhibitions of the grace and proficiency of its pupils in the parlors of the Union Tavern in Georgetown. At one of these exhibitions Margaret was crowned by Mrs. Madison, the wife of the President, as the prettiest girl and most graceful dancer in the room. Naturally ambitious, this first social triumph pointed out the possibility of greater ones, to be achieved only after bitter contests that would have crushed the spirit of a more sensitive woman. Her father deeming her sufficiently well educated, in which opinion she concurred, she quitted school in her fifteenth year, and, being now a young woman of bewitching beauty and abundant leisure, she entered extensively upon her career as a belle.