They made a decree that lawyers never

Should think their records dated duly, 270

If, after the day of the month and year,

These words did not as well appear,

‘And so long after what happened here

On the twenty-second of July,

Thirteen hundred and seventy-six:’ 275

And the better in memory to fix

The place of the children’s last retreat,

They called it, the Pied Piper’s Street—