And hush'd the teaching voice that gladly pour'd

Knowledge and goodness o'er the plastic mind.

—Full many a pupil of thy varied lore

Amid thine own New-England's elm-crowned vales

Holds thee in tenderness of grateful thought,

And far away in the broad-featured west

Where the strong Sire of waters robes in green

The shores of Minnesota, comes a wail

From youthful bands expecting thy return,

To guide them, as the shepherd leads the lamb.