HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY.

NEW YORK: 11 EAST SEVENTEENTH STREET.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge.

1835

0892T39

BS

Copyright, 1882,
BY F. B. SANBORN.

All rights reserved.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A.
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. 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.

CONCORD, January, 1882.

A. BRONSON ALCOTT.