ON SAINT HELEN’S DAY, 1809.
DEAR Boys!–dismiss’d awhile from school,
From sober learning’s thorny rule,–
The annual race of glory run,
The prize bestow’d, the laurels won,–
Ye leave the scientific dome,
While noisy rapture hails your home:
Home–cherish’d spot! whose magic power
Can charm with hope the studious hour;
And where the heart–however far–
Points, like the needle to its star!
And now, with many a fond oration,
Ye ask, to crown this dear vacation,
Saturnian time of sport and play,
A F
(Helen Maria Williams)
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