The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . ely hillside play, Where stood his tent, of yore. A century and a half has flown On times relentless Indians with the years have fled,And murmuring pine trees overheadTheir lonely requiem sing. But still his well-remembered fame, In song and stories quaint and wondrous things he journeys long and actions bold,The warning that he brought. On Miserys mount the lonely winds About his hearthstone moan,Deep brook flows by with silent rush,From out the wood the bird songs gush,But human life has
The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . ely hillside play, Where stood his tent, of yore. A century and a half has flown On times relentless Indians with the years have fled,And murmuring pine trees overheadTheir lonely requiem sing. But still his well-remembered fame, In song and stories quaint and wondrous things he journeys long and actions bold,The warning that he brought. On Miserys mount the lonely winds About his hearthstone moan,Deep brook flows by with silent rush,From out the wood the bird songs gush,But human life has flown. Peutucket town still stretches down Beside the river clear,But it is now a city proud,With, streets in which the busy crowd No more the savage fear. About it still the sheltering hills In smiling beauty stand,While stately buildings rising nigh,With beauteous homesteads make it vieWith fairest in the land. Beyoud the hills lie smiling fields, And sweet wild waters dance,The quaint old names about them cling,And over lake and hillside flingA glamour of romance. Jrj. COUNT RUMFORI). By Charles R. Coming- ^!^2^J)MID the austere environ-VHV /^h ments of a simple village in Colonial Massachu-setts, just as the eigh-teenth centur}T had halfrun its course, was born a child ofPuritan parents, who in after life wasto become one of the famous men ofall history. So wonderful and so va-ried were the characteristics of thatchild that we may well believe thatthe Graces stood around his there ever was an occasionsummoning the fairies from ideal re-treats, that occasion might have beenseen at Woburn March 26, 1753. In a land with never a castle andnever a knight, in a community asprimitive as it was lovely, the fabledspirits played as pretty a drama asever the storied and illuminated Easthad ever seen. Out of the wild en- 1 An address before the Colonial Dames of NewJoseph li. Walker at Concord, June i;. tanglement of the forest the fairiesconstructed a palace and with
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