The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1876-02-03
BOSTON.
BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON.

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BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
from the Atlantic. Monthly Magazine Il
/ February.l
Ihs rocky nook with hfII-iops three
Looked eastward from the farms.
And twice each day the flowing sea
TOOK Boston in is arms;
The men efyore were stout and poor,
And sailed for bread to every shore.
Ana when they went on trade intent
Tney did what heemen can,
Their dauntless ways did all men praise,
The merchant was a man.
The world was made for honest trade
To plant and eat be none afraid.
The waves that rocked them on the deep
To them their secret told;
said the winds that sung the lads to sleep
| Like US, be free and bold ~
The honest waves refuse to slaves
The empire of the ocean caves.
Old Europe groans with paIa,es,
Has lords enough, and more;
We Plant and build by foaming seas
A city of the poor;
1 wi W Jay boston l1aV
Their honest labor overpay.
The noble craftsman we promote,
Dlsown the knave and fool;
Each honest man shall have his vote,
Each child shall have his school.
FoF what avail the plow and sail,
orfAnd, or life II freedom fail
We grant no dukedoms to the few,
We hold like rights, and shall
Equal on Sunday in the pew,
On Monday in the mall.
Tue wild rose and the barberry thorn
Hung out their summer pride
Where now on heated paveme It's worn
The feet of millions stride,
Fair rose the planted hills behind
The good town OF the bay;
And where the western hills declIue,
The prairie stretched away.
When rival towers majestic soar
Along the stormy coast
Penn's town, New York and Baltimore
fBoston knew the most
They laughed to know the world so wide;
The mountains said tGood dayl
We greet you well, you Saxon men;
Up with your towns and stay %
The world was made for honest trade
ToplaAt and eat be none afraid;
''For you" they said, "no barriers be,
For you no sluggard rest
Each street leads downward p the sea,
Or landward to the West"
o, happy town beside the sea,
Whose roads lead everywhere to all;
Than thine no deeper moat can be,
No sleeper fence, no better wall
Bad news from George on the English
throne
''You are thriving well." said he,
"Now by these presents be 1t known,
You shall pay us a tax on tea.
'Tis very small-no load at all
Honor enough that we send the call"
"Not so" said Boston; "good my lord,
We pay your Governors here
Abundant for their bed and hoard,
Six thousand pounds year.
(Your Highness knows our homely WORTH
Millions for self-goUeTnRIent,
But for tribute neuer a cent?
The cargo came, and who could blame
lfIndians seized the tea.
And chest by chest, let down the same
Into the laughing sea7
For what avail the plow or sail,
Or land. or life. If freedom faii?
The towDsmen braved the English king,
Found friendship in the French,
And Honor Joined the patriot ring
Low on their wooden bench.
o bounteous seas that never fail
y day remembered yet
o happy port that spied the sail
Which waited Lafayettel
Pole-star of light IN Europe's night,
That never faltered from the right.
Kings shook with fear, old empires crave =
The secret force to ind
Which fired the little State to save
The rights of all mankind
But right is might through all the world
Province to province faithful cIung,
Through good and i'll the war bolt hurled
Till Freedom cheered and the joy bell
rung.
The sea returning day by day
Restores the worldwide mart
So let each dweller on the bay
Fold Boston in his heart,
Till these echoes be choked with SHOWS
Or over the town blue ocean flows.
Let the blood of her hundred thousands
Throb in each manly vein;
And the wit of all her wisest
Make sunshine in her brain.
For you can teach the lightning speech
And round the globe your voices reach
And each shall care for other,
And each to each shall bend.
To the poor noble brother,
To the good an equal friend.
A blessings through the ages thus
Shield all thy roofs and towers
God 10Th uIe fathers, so t0ith its,
Thou darling town of oursI