The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-02
BOSTON,.

And where they went on trade intent
They did what freemen can,
Their dauntless ways did all men praise,
The merchant was man.
The world was made for honest trade,-
70 plant and eat be none afraid.
The waves that rocked them on the deep
To them their secret told
SAID The wn ID hst s and the sd' to Sleep
The hOuest waves refuse to slaves
The empire Of the ocean caves.
Old Europe groans with palaces,
Has lords enough, and more,-
We plant and build by foaming seas
A city of the poor;
For day by day could Boston Bay
Their honest labor overpay.
The noble craftsman we promote,
Disown the knave and fool;
Each honest man shall have his vote,
Each child shall have his school.
For what avail the pillow or sail,
Or land, or life, if 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.
The wild rose and the barberry thorn
Hung out their summer pride.
Where now on heated pavements worn
The feet Of millions stride.
Fair rose the planted hills behind
The good town Oh the bay;
And where the western hills declined
The prairie stretched away.
What rival towers majestic soar
Along the stormy coast
PENIS town, NewYork, and Baltimore
fBoston knew the most
They laughed to know the world so wide;
The mountains said, ''Good d.yl
We greet you well, you Saxon men,
Up with your towns, and stay IL
The world was made for honest trade
To plant and eat be none afraid.
':For you," they said, mo barriers be,
For you no sluggard rest:
Each street leads downward to 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 he,
No sleeper fence, no better WALL
Bad news from George on the English throne j:
"You are thriving well, said he,
"Now by these presents be it known,
You shall pay us tax on tea
IT'S 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 aud board,
Six thousand pounds year.
(Your highness kncws our hornely word)
Millions for sell. government
But for tribute ncrer cent"
The cargo came snd who could blame
If Indians seized the tea,
And, chest by chest, let down the same
Into the laughing seaH
For what avail the pillow or sail.
Or land, or life, if freedom fail?
The townsnen braved the English king,
Feund friendship in the French,
And Honor joined the patriot ring
Low on their wooden bench.
On bounteous seas that never fail!
on day remembered yet!
Oh happy port that spied the sail
Which waited Lafayette
l'ole-star OF light in Europe's night,
That never taltered from the right.
Kings shook with fear, old empires crave
The secret force to find
Which fired the little state to save
The rights of all mankind.
But right is might through all the world;
m, province to province faithful chung,
Till Freedom cheered and the joy-bells rune.
The sea returning day by day
Restores the worldwide mart
SO let each dweller on the Bay
Fold Boston i'll his heart,
I'LL these echoes be choked with SHOWS.
Or over the town blue ocean flows.
Let the blood Of her hundred thousands
Ihrob 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.
10 the poor noble brother,
10 the good All equal friend.
blessing through the ages thus
Shield all thy roofs and towers
God auth the fathers, SD Nth lis.
Thou darling town of ours!
February Atlantic.
THREE FATAL DUELS.
How the deadly feud between the Counts
de Montbaisson and the Cerons de Precv
had originated, not even those who were
well acquainted with the history of those
two noble French houses were able to
tell. Since time immemorial thew had
inhabited neighboring castles, and they
were even distant relatives; but they had
always displayed the most intense hos.
tlllty toward each other.
In the politics of their country thew
mad always espoused different causes.
Duriur tho +;~oc of