Another poet in Poems of Places says:
“Beneath that lordly tower
A simple chapel stands,
In days long gone it caught the sound
Of Cotton’s earnest tongue.”
For the Reverend John Cotton, one of Boston’s earliest ministers, came from Boston, England; and it is of him that “Norton” says, in the Tragedy of John Endicott:
“The lantern of St. Botolph’s ceased to burn
When from the portals of that church he came
To be a burning and a shining light
Here in the wilderness.”