Free commune with the choir that cannot die;

Science and song; delight in little things;
The buoyant child surviving in the man.

S. T. COLERIDGE.

BOSTON:

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR.

1848.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848, by

H. P. CARLTON,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

ENOX LIBRARY

NEW YORK

DEDICATION.

NOT with the vain hope of adding any new glory to those, who already stand high on the summit of the Popocatapetl of North American literature; not to forestall any favorable review, which he may not merit; not to deprecate any sarcastic criticisms, which every work deserves that is not perfect; but simply to testify his unfeigned respect and admiration of those men, who have justly rendered classic ground, the world over, the scenes which the following Poem describes ;

IN WHOSE

SECONDLY TO THE

OF THE CLASS OF 1848,

OF THE UNIVERSITY AT CAMBRIDGE,

GRADUATING YEAR THE CHILDE WAS BORN;

AND, THIRDLY-TO

CHILDE

HARVARD

HIMSELF;

BY THE AUTHOR,

SEÑOR ALGUNO.