Between 1826 and his departure upon a trip to Europe in June, 1834, Bryant--with one exception to be noted later--wrote no signed verse for the _Evening Post_, reserving his few productions, since he was too busy for much poetical composition, for the magazines and annuals. But several effusions from his pen can nevertheless be identified. In the first two months of 1829 the town was much interested by the courageous woman lecturer, one of the first of the long line which has struggled to enlarge woman’s sphere, Miss Fanny Wright. Bryant, as his letters show, wrote the rather scornful ode to this free-thinking disciple of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, which appeared in the issue of Jan. 29: Thou wonder of the age, from whom Religion waits her final doom, Her quiet death, her euthanasia, Thou in whose eloquence and bloom The age beholds a new Aspasia! * * * * * O ’tis a glorious sight for us, The gaping throng, to see thee thus The light of dawning truth dispense, While Col. Stone, the learn’d and brave, The press’s Atlas, mild but grave, Hangs on the words that leave thy mouth, Slaking his intellectual drouth, In that rich stream of eloquence, And notes thy teachings, to repeat Their wisdom in his classic sheet ... Another bit of verse, a short political satire (March 25, 1831), is identifiable by the fact that it is signed “Q,” the initial Bryant used for dramatic criticism, and that it is marked as his in the files presented by the _Evening Post_ to the Lenox Collection. Called “The Bee in the Tar Barrel,” it represents the buzzings of the _National Gazette_--Henry Clay’s organ in New York--over the tariff, the removal of the Cherokees, and other current topics: I heard a bee, on a summer day, Brisk, and busy, and ripe for quarrel-- Bustling, and buzzing, and bouncing away, In the fragrant depths of an old tar-barrel. Do you ask what his buzzing was all about? Oh, he was wondrous shrewd and critical. ’Twas sport to hear him scold and flout, And the topics he chose were all political ... Bryant also is probably to be credited with several of the last New Year’s addresses of the carriers, long rhymed reviews of the year’s events which were then expected annually. He could have tossed off more easily than any one else in the office such hexameters as the following (Jan. 2, 1829): Since New Year’s day came last about, The Emperor Nicholas sent out A potent army, full of fight, Cossack, and Pole, and Muscovite, To give the Turks a castigation, Such as they ne’er had since creation. They passed the Pruth in fine condition, And meeting no great opposition, They thought to make their winter quarters By Hellespont’s resounding waters ...