Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-10-31
NO. 25s.
M1scELLANEoUs READING.
DR.. HOLMES, LAST POEM, THE BOYS


The following lines by DR.. Holmes, appear in
the Atlantic Monthly. They were written, Il is
said for a recent festive gathering OF his old class
mateS-'thc boys" of Harvard College:
THE BOYS.
Has there any old fellow got mixed with the boys'
II there has. take him out without making noise.
Hang the Aluanac's cheat and the Catalogues
spite.
Old Time is liar! We're twenty "a. night!
We're twenty! We're twenty! Who says We are
more!
Hes tipsy,-yOung Jackanspes!-show him the
door,
"Gray temples at twenty" Yes white, if we please
Where the snow fakes fall thickest there's nothing
can freeze!
Was it snow spoke of Excuse the mistake.
Look close-you will not see sign OF fake;
We want some new gariands for those we have
And these are white roses in place of the red!
We've trick, We young fellows, you may have been
told,
Of talking i'm public) as five were old;
That boy we call Doctor and this call Judge
Its neat little fction,--of course it's all fudge
That fellows the "Speaker,"-,he one on the right;
MIR. Mayor" my young one, how are you to night
That's Member of Congress" wo say when We
chaf;
There's the Reverend" What's his nsne-dont
make me laugh!
That boy with the grave mathematical look
Made believe he had written wonderful book,
And the ROYAL ACADEMY thought II was true
81 they chose him right in; good joke it was, too!
There's koy-we pretend--with three-iecker
brain.
That could harness a team with logical chain;
When he spoke for our manhood in syllabled fire,
We called him "The Justice" but now he's "Ihe
Squire"
And there's nice youngster Of excellent pth. -
Fate tried to conceal him by naming him smith
But he shouted a song for the brave and tn, free,
just read on his medal MY country, ,"-"ot
thce!"
You hear that boy laughing'-you think he's a II
But the angels laugh too. at the good he has done;
The children laugh loud rs they troop TO his call,
And the poor man who knows him laughs loudest
of all.
Yes, we're bays,--always playing with tongue or
with pcn,-
And sometimes have asked--Shall we ever DO
mem
Shall we always be youthful and laughing and gay,
Till the last dear companion drops smiling awsy'
Then here's to our boyhood, its gold and its gray
The stars Of its Winter, the dews ofits May!
And when we have done with our life-lssting toys,
Dear Father. take of thy children. the Boys!
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