Meeting of the Descendants of the Pioneers in the Upper Connecticut Valley Above Old Haverhill in New Hampshire and Newbury in Vermont: The First Settlement in the Upper Valley was on April Nineteen. [1764] |
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Page 19 - THE OLD OAKEN BUCKET. How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view!
Page 19 - I COME from good old Boston, The home of the bean and the cod ; Where the Cabots speak only to Lowells, And the Lowells speak only to God ! Dr.
Page 43 - Hurrah for old New England! And her cloud-capped granite hills. Shall not the land, tho' poor she be, That gave a Webster birth, With pride, step forth to take her place With the mightiest of the earth? Then for his sake, whose lofty fame Our farthest bound'ries fill, We'll shout for old New England And her cloud-capped granite hills.
Page 43 - Others may seek the western clime, They say 'tis passing fair. That sunny are its laughing skies And soft its balmy air; We'll linger round our childhood's home, 'Till age our warm blood chills. 'Till we die in old New England, And sleep beneath her hills. CHORUS : Hurrah, &c. * The author of tills popular sone U a well-known citizen of Keene. He wrote It originally, " Hurrah for old New Hampshire,
Page 43 - Our spring time care and toil; Yet gaily sings the merry boy As the homestead farm he tills, Hurrah for old New England And her cloud-capped granite hills.
Page 43 - Till death our quick blood stills, Hurrah for old New England! And her cloud-capped granite hills. CHORUS : Hurrah for old New England! And her cloud-capped granite hills. Hurrah for old New England ! And her cloud-capped granite hills. Shall not the land tho' poor she be That gave a Webster birth.
Page 31 - It gives me great pleasure to present to you the man who...