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CLASS OF '29.

FOR THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1856.

YOU'LL believe me, dear boys, 't is a pleasure to rise With a welcome like this in your darling old eyes,

To meet the same smiles and to hear the same tone

Which have greeted me oft in the years that have flown.

Were I gray as the grayest old rat in the wall,
My locks would turn brown at the sight of you all;
If my heart were as dry as the shell on the sand,
It would fill like the goblet I hold in my hand.

There are noontides of autumn, when summer returns, Though the leaves are all garnered and sealed in their

urns,

And the bird on his perch that was silent so long

Believes the sweet sunshine and breaks into song.

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I give you Home! its crossing lines
United in one golden suture,

And showing every day that shines
The present growing to the future,—
A fag that bears a hundred stars,

In one bright ring, with love for centre,
Fenced round with white and crimson bars,
No prowling treason dares to enter!

O brochers, home may be a word
To make affection's living treasure
The wave an angel might have stirred —
A stagnant pool of selfish pleasure;
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It is where the day-star springs
And where the evening sun reposes,
Where'er the eagle spreads his wings,

From northern pines to southern roses!

MEETING OF

THE NEW EDEN.

THE BERKSHIRE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, AT
STOCKBRIDGE, SEPT. 15, 1804.,

SCARCE could the parting ocean close,
Seamed by the Mayflower's cleaving bor.
When o'er the rugged deser: rose

The waves that tracked the Figi: UNE.

Then sprang from many a rock-strew: The rippling grass. ti nocny gra Such growths as Englis: meator- v. To scanty suL and frequer ra

But when the fer dar mer av

And Autum prou

Then, kindling in

The bil-sides gua

We have caged the young birds of our beautiful June: Their plumes are still bright and their voices in tune; One moment of sunshine from faces like these,

And they sing as they sung in the green-growing trees.

The voices of morning! How sweet is their thrill When the shadows have turned, and the evening grows still!

The text of our lives may get wiser with age,

But the print was so fair on its twentieth

page!

Look off from your goblet and up from your plate, Come, take the last journal and glance at its date,Then think what we fellows should say and should do, If the 6 were a 9, and the 5 were a 2.

Ah no! For the shapes that would meet with us here From the far land of shadows are ever too dear! Though youth flung around us its pride and its charms, We should see but the comrades we clasped in our arms.

A health to our future,

a sigh for our past!

We love, we remember, we hope to the last;

And for all the base lies that the almanacs hold,

While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow

old.

FOR THE MEETING OF THE BURNS CLUB.

1856.

THE mountains glitter in the snow
A thousand leagues asunder;
Yet here, amid the banquet's glow,
I hear their voice of thunder;
Each giant's ice-bound goblet clinks;
A flowing stream is summoned;
Wachusett to Ben Nevis drinks ;
Monadnock to Ben Lomond !

Though years have clipped the eagle's plume That crowned the chieftain's bonnet,

The sun still sees the heather bloom,

The silver mists lie on it;

With tartan kilt and philibeg,

What stride was ever bolder

Than his who showed the naked leg

Beneath the plaided shoulder?

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