Poems: With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith

by Rebekah Smith

With banner wide unfurled,

An honor to your native land,

A blessing to the world.

And when at last, life’s work is done,

This recompense you’ll have,

The true and lasting fame that waits

The Great, the Good, the Brave.

Ode.

Written for the anniversary exercises of the Golden Branch Society of Phillips’ Exeter Academy, June, 1851.

We’ve met again within these halls—