• “praise ye the Lord!” The psalm to-day
      Still rises on our ears,
    Borne from the hills of Boston Bay
      Through five times fifty years,
    When Winthrop’s fleet from Yarmouth crept
      Out to the open main,
    And through the widening waters swept,
      In April sun and rain.
        “Pray to the Lord with fervent lips,”
          The leader...

  • No! never such a draught was poured

      Since Hebe served with nectar

    The bright Olympians and their Lord,

      Her over-kind protector,—

    Since Father Noah squeezed the grape

      And took to such behaving

    As would have shamed our grandsire ape

      Before the days of shaving,—

    No! ne'er was...