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THE author of the annexed poem was the late David Everett, a distant relative of the late Edward Everett. He was born in Princeton, Mass., in 1769. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1759. In the Winter previous to entering Dartmouth College in 1791, when a teacher in the grammar school at New Ipswich, he prepared a little poem, to be recited at an exhibition got up in the academy style, composed expressly for Ephraim H. Farrar, to be spoken by him on the occasion, when only seven years of age:

You'd scarce expect one of my age
To speak in public on the stage;
And if I chance to fall below
Demosthenes or Cicero,

Don't view me with a critic's eye,
But pass my imperfections by;

Large streams from little fountains flow;
Tall oaks from little acorns grow;
And though I now am small and young,
Of judgment weak, and feeble tongue,
Yet all great learned men, like me

Once learned to read their A B C.

But why may not Columbia's soil

Rear men as great as Britain's Isle

Exceed what Greece and Rome have done,

Or any land beneath the sun?

May'n't Massachusetts boast as great

As any other sister State?

Or where's the town, go far and near,
That does not find a rival here?

Or where's the boy but three feet high,
Who's made improvement more than I?
These thoughts inspire my youthful mind
To be the greatest of mankind;

Great, not like Cæsar, stained with blood,
But only great as I am good.

I will here remark that the boy who spoke the simple speech written by David Everett, whose name was Ephraim Hartwell Farrar, was writing-master, in 1813, in the elementary school of Lawson Lyon, located on the north side of Dr. Channing's church in Boston, where sons of the most distinMaster guished families were educated.

Farrar was remarkable for a mild and even temper, and his benignant light stroke of the rattan was a striking contrast to the eight severe blows of the buttonwood ferule so vigorously applied by Master Lyon, the terror of the school. Master Farrar was the son of Rev. Stephen Farrar, the first minister of New Ipswich, graduated at Harvard College in 1755. He was born Dec. 8th, 1783, married Phebe Parker in 1825, widow of Jonas C. Champney. His wife died in 1848, and Master Farrar died in New Ipswich, Jan. 8th, 1851.-G. C., in The Boston Transcript.

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