BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

Che Riverside Press, Cambridge

AL 36 29.07.2
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HARVARD
COLLEGE
LIBRARY

Copyright, 1882,
BY F. B. SANBORN.

All rights reserved.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A.
Electrotyped and Printed by II. 0. Houghton & Company.

Much do they wrong our Henry wise and kind,
Morose who name thee, cynical to men,
Forsaking manners civil and refined
To build thyself in Walden woods a den, –
Then flout society, flatter the rude hind.
We better knew thee, loyal citizen!
Thou, friendship's all-adventuring pioneer,
Civility itself wouldst civilize:
Whilst braggart boors, wavering 'twixt rage and fear,
Slave hearths lay waste, and Indian huts surprise,
And swift the Martyr's gibbet would uprear :
Thou hail'dst him great whose valorous emprise
Orion's blazing belt dimmed in the sky, –
Then bowed thy unrepining head to die.

A. BRONSON ALCOTT.

CONCORD, January, 1882,