till it mounts to the sky!
Angels of Bethlehem, echo the strain!

NOTES.

THE BOYS.
The members of the Harvard College class of 1829 referred to in this poem
are: "Doctor," Francis Thomas; "Judge," G. T. Bigelow, Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court of Massachusetts; "O Speaker," Hon. Francis B.
Crowninshield, Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives;
"Mr. Mayor," G. W. Richardson, of Worcester,Mass.; "Member of Congress,"
Hon. George T. Davis; "Reverend," James Freeman Clarke; "boy with the
grave mathematical look," Benjamin Peirce; "boy with a three-decker
brain," Judge Benjamin R. Curtis, of the Supreme Court of the United
States; "nice youngster of excellent pith," S. F. Smith, author of "My
Country, 't is of Thee."

"That lovely, bright-eyed boy." William Sturgis.

"Who faced the storm so long." Francis B. Crowninshield.

"Our many featured friend." George T. Davis.

"The close-clinging dulcamara." The "bitter-sweet" of New England is the
_Celastrus scandens_, "bourreau des arbres" of the Canadian French.

"All armed with picks and spades." The captured slaves were at this time
organized as pioneers.

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