James Russell Lowell and His Friends

by Edward Everett Hale

I believe Lowell afterwards printed among his collected poems one or two which first appeared in “Harvardiana.” Here is a specimen which I believe has never been reprinted until now:—

“Perchance improvement, in some future time,

May soften down the rugged path of rhyme,

Build a nice railroad to the sacred mount,

And run a steamboat to the muses’ fount!

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Fain would I more—but could my muse aspire

To praise in fitting strains our College choir?

Ah, happy band! securely hid from sight,

Ye pour your melting strains with all your might;