America : our national hymn . HOME OF REV. DR. S. F. SMITH. THE AUTHOR OF OUR NATIONAL s .<??-?- THE FAVORITE CORNER. AMUEL FRANCIS SMITH, the author of ourNational Hymn, America, was born in a housethen standing near the head of Sheafe street, at the NorthEnd, Boston, under the sound of old Christ Church chimes,Friday, October 21, 1808. He was a pupil, for a season, inthe Eliot School, and stood at the head of it for the lastyear or more of his attendance there. At that earlyperiod, the divine fervor began to breathe within him,and though he left the school when he was but elevenyea
America : our national hymn . HOME OF REV. DR. S. F. SMITH. THE AUTHOR OF OUR NATIONAL s .<??-?- THE FAVORITE CORNER. AMUEL FRANCIS SMITH, the author of ourNational Hymn, America, was born in a housethen standing near the head of Sheafe street, at the NorthEnd, Boston, under the sound of old Christ Church chimes,Friday, October 21, 1808. He was a pupil, for a season, inthe Eliot School, and stood at the head of it for the lastyear or more of his attendance there. At that earlyperiod, the divine fervor began to breathe within him,and though he left the school when he was but elevenyears of age, he had already become an author of verses which still are held inmemory by loving friends. He might have said with Pope : I lisped in numbers,for the numbers came. From the Eliot School he was transferred to the Latin School, in 1820. Here, ac-cording to the custom of the school, in due time he committed to memory all theEclogues of Virgil and the odes of Horace in Latin, and all the odes of Anacreonin Greek, besides many other extended passages in these and other Greek a
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