Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-01-30

EY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

El 0LINE ER WENDELL HOLMES.
No never such draught was poured
Since ilebe served with nectar
The bright olympians and their Lord.
Her over-kiud proteetOr,-
Since Father Noah squeezed the -raYc
And took 10 such behaving
A. would hsve shamed our srani-iis aps.
Before the DAYS OF shaving,
No ne'er was ming led such fr-u ut
In palace. hall. or arbOr,
A. freenen hrewed and tyranis quaA.I
That night in Boston Harbor!
il kept King George SO long awake
His poor old brain got added.
1t made the nerves Of Britain shake
With seven score millions saddled
Before that bitter cup was drained
Amid the roar of cannon,
The Western war clouds crimson stained
The Thames, the Clyde, the shannon
Full many a six-fo0t grenadier
The fiattened grass had measured
And many mother many year
Her fearful memories treasured
last spread the tempest's darkening pail
the m ghty realms were troubled.
The storm broke loose, but first ofall
The Boston teapot bubbled
An evenin, oarty-only that.
No formal invitation.
NJ sold-laced coat, no stin cravat,
No ieas. in expectation.
No silk-robed danes, no iddling hanis.
No flowers, no songs, no dancing
tribe OF Redmen axe ia hand
Behold the guests advancing
How fast the stragglers Join the thr0ng,
From stall ana workshop gathered
The lively barber skips along
Ana leaves a chin half lathered
The smith has flung his hammer down
The horseshoe Still is glowing
The truant tapster at the Crown
Has len a ltiasr f.l Il ftuyfnrf
The cooper's boys have dropped the adzs,
And tIott behind their master.
u run the tarry ship-yard lads
The crowd is hurry ing faster
put from the NiIl-pond's purlieus gush
The streams 'i white-faced millers.
And down their slippery alleys rush
The lusty young tort II illers;
The rapeWalk lends L. prentice crew
The tories sc ze the omen
Al. BOYS yol'll soon have work to do
England : rebel iaemen.
o h nj Handbook. Adams, and their sans
That ire the NOT with treason
hlru f4ese We shoot and those We hinr
The town viii come TO reason.
uu-,u o. where the tea ships ride
And DOW their ranks are forming
rush. and up the Dartmouth's SIDE
THE Mohawk band is swarming
See the fierce natives What glimpse
ID. ps. ut. and fur and feather.
A. al af once the full grown imps
L -ht un the leek together
s s.air, the p gals secret, keeps.
A blanket hides the breeche.-
AID ruf the ca -sed cargo LEAFS.
Aud overheard il pitches
% woman, al the evening board
$. rae.uus, sweet and purring.
5. happy while the tea is poured,
$ H.c-t while spoons are stirring.
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mother, wife or daughter.
I.s- t. -lt, instead OF best Bohea.
t..smued T. milk and water
Al u.e dreams the quiet dame
hh. plies with rock and spindle
pat en-. ha2, how great a flame
fuu Little spark shall kindle
rhe iurid uonrnin- shall reveal
4 lre uo kInc can smother
Where British lint aud Boston steel
Have c.ashed against each other
old charters shrivel 100 It's track,
H.- workshops bench mas crumhled
DO climbs and clasps tie uuion Jack
Its A.azoned pomp is BUNDLED.
The hI-- 60 dogn'Ou land and sea
Like corn before the reapers;
SEQ h.azed the fire that hrewed the tea
That Boston =efyed her keepers
The waves that wrought "a century S wreck
Have rolled Ger WIN and tory
Tie Mohawks IN the Dartmouth dccA
St!u live In song and story,
The waters in the rtncl has
Have kept tie tel-loaf siYnr-
our old North Ender, in their spray
SUI taste iil ~ou navUr
And Freedom tea cup still D'eriirWs
Will ever fresh llhitiuus.
To cheat u. sluuher all her foes
Aud cheer the w1keuIug nation,
.c. DO, 1873. -ilmn. n'.ft.s