A SENTIMENT. A TRIPLE health to Friendship, Science, Art, Friendship's blind service, in the hour of need, Wipes the pale face and lets the victim bleed. Science must stop to reason and explain; But Art's brief memory fails the hand at last; Then SCIENCE lifts the flambeau of the past. When both their equal impotence deplore, — When Learning sighs, and Skill can do no more, The tear of FRIENDSHIP pours its heavenly balm, And soothes the pang no anodyne may calm! May 1st, 1855. SEMICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY, -NEW YORK, DEC. 22, 1855. NEW England, we love thee; no time can erase His bride may be fresher in beauty's young flower; You have left the dear land of the lake and the hill, But its winds and its waters will talk with you still. "Forget not," they whisper, "your love is our debt," And echo breathes softly, "We never forget." But The banquet's gay splendors are gleaming around, hearts have flown back o'er the waves of the Sound; your They have found the brown home where their pulses were born; They are throbbing their way through the trees and the corn. There are roofs you remember, — their glory is fled; There are mounds in the churchyard,—one sigh for the dead. There are wrecks, there are ruins, all scattered around; But Earth has no spot like that corner of ground. Here's a bumper to Maine, in the juice of the pump! Here's to all the good people, wherever they be, We should like to talk big; it's a kind of a right, When the tongue has got loose and the waistband grown tight; But, as pretty Miss Prudence remarked to her beau, On its own heap of compost, no biddy should crow. Enough! There are gentlemen waiting to talk, God bless all her children! Good night to you all! ODE FOR WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY. CELEBRATION OF THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. FEBRUARY 22, 1856. WELCOME to the day returning, Dearer still as ages flow, While the torch of Faith is burning, Long as Freedom's altars glow! See the hero whom it gave us Slumbering on a mother's breast; For the arm he stretched to save us, Hear the tale of youthful glory, Friend and foe repeat the story, Spread his fame o'er sea and land, Flaps above the frigate's deck, |