[165] [The Service, pp. 25, 26.]
[166] [The Service, pp. 21, 22.]
[167] [The Service, p. 22.]
[168] [The Service, p. 14.]
[169] [The Service, p. 12.]
[170] I have heard a strain of music issuing from a soldiers' camp in the dawn, which sounded like the morning hymn of creation. The birches rustling in the breeze and the slumberous breathing of the crickets seemed to hush their murmuring to attend to it. [Written in pencil on a fly-leaf of the Journal.]
[171] [The Service, p. 7. Mr. Sanborn, in a note to this passage, says, "The allusion here is to the extraordinary sight of the gravest citizens of Concord, in that summer [1840], ... turning out to roll a huge ball, emblematic of the popular movement against President Van Buren, from the battle-ground of Concord to that of Bunker Hill, singing as they rolled:—
'It is the Ball a-rolling on
For Tippecanoe and Tyler too.'">[
[172] [Week, p. 129; Riv. 161.]
[173] [Week, p. 129; Riv. 160, 161.]