Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850, by
PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & CO.,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts

STEREOTYPED AT THE
BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.

THE POET.

A moody child and wildly wise
Pursued the game with joyful eyes,
Which chose, like meteors, their way,
And rived the dark with private ray :
They overleapt the horizon's edge,
Searched with Apollo's privilege;

Through man, and woman, and sea, and star,
Saw the dance of nature forward far;

Through worlds, and races, and terms, and times,

Saw musical order, and pairing rhymes.

Olympian bards who sung
Divine ideas below,

Which always find us young,

And always keep us so.