Stephen Merrill Allen

Myles Standish, with an Account of the Exercises of Consecration of the Monument Ground on Captain's Hill, Duxbury, Aug. 17, 1871 Stephen Merrill Allen

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1871. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... military service won on the great battle-fields of Europe, a simple citizen in this colony, performing on this shore his daily toil, a warrior to-day, a farmer to-morrow, and ever ready to serve his people in any capacity, a pillar of the church and the State alike, an example for the brave and true in all time. I give you therefore, in closing: The first great civil chieftain of the country,-- may the lesson which he taught guide our leaders in all time to come. Applause followed Dr. Loring's speech. The President then said, " The next toast is,' Captain's Hill; it speaks today in all its pride,' and I have the honor of introducing to you Mr. Justin Winsor, a citizen of Duxbury formerly, aDd now at the head of the Boston Public Library." To this Mr. Winsor responded thus: -- CAPTAIN'S HILL. A tumult of scorn swept wild through the skies, Till the echoes were crazed with the taunting replies, And the valleys looked up with a mute surprise. It swelled from the Jungfrau's icy steep, From Jura's wall of stupendous sweep, From Pilate mirrored in Geneva's deep; -- From where along the Grampian verge Ben Lomond saw the sea emerge; Where Snowdon weltered in vapory surge. T was heard amid our Northern folk, When Katahdin to Chocorua broke, And Greylock all his echoes woke. Where Lookout stands, a host beside, Bore off the tumult far and wide, Till remotest Shasta met the tide. And thus commingled scoff and mock Of forest peak and scarred rock Iu one reverberating shock. Down on a sandy shore there lay The guileless cause of this riotous fray, -- Our Captain's Hill, -- it speaks to-day! Had the clouds vouchsafed to its summit bare A vapory cap, 't were then and there Its scorn had flung it high in air. Sturdy and true as its hero's soul, It heard the bantering echoes rol...