MEMORIAL POEM.

READ AT THE ANNUAL DINNER OF THE BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION, APRIL 29, 1886.

A Latin-School poem? ’Twere easy to write

On a theme so suggestive an epic at sight,

An ode, full of fire, or, if that wouldn’t do,

An Eclogue, or even a Georgic or two,

With allusions to classical roots, and Greek ponies

Hard ridden and worn—I confess that my own is.