History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . glorious hills;As once I reveled, feasted, in the spring:Of careless, happy boyhood. And Ive bowedAgain within thy temple, and have heard,As though times footfall liad these years been hushed,Thy patriarch pastors lips, like dew, distill(Jentle instruction. And the same is he,As to young love and reverence he was,My cheerful friend, benevolent, and same thy hills and dells, those skies the sameOf rich October; such as only bendOver New England; and the same gray walls,Reare
History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . glorious hills;As once I reveled, feasted, in the spring:Of careless, happy boyhood. And Ive bowedAgain within thy temple, and have heard,As though times footfall liad these years been hushed,Thy patriarch pastors lips, like dew, distill(Jentle instruction. And the same is he,As to young love and reverence he was,My cheerful friend, benevolent, and same thy hills and dells, those skies the sameOf rich October; such as only bendOver New England; and the same gray walls,Reared in New Englands infancy, are thoseWhich charmed imagination. Thou art fairAn<l beautiful as ever. Fancy deemsThy sweet retreat excused the common doom. BROOKLTNE. 859 Caused by the fall, as if the ArchitectWere willing, by such specimen, to showWhat Eden, in its primal beauty, was. I think that no one will dispute that Brookline was for along time pre-eminent in the little cordon of towns which haveso long constituted the exquisite environs of Boston, emboss-ing it with a rich and varied margin of lawn and lake andmeadow and wooded hill-side, and encircling its old plain neck,as William Wood called it, in his New England Prospect, withan unfading wreath of bloom and verdure. I think no onewill dispute her claim to have given the earliest celebrity tothose environs for rural culture and beauty. Visitors fromother countries, or from other States, carried home with thema deeper impression of the charms of this spot and its sur-roundings than of any other region in New England; andwhen the well-to-do Bostonian, before there were any railroadsor steamers to whirl him off to Scotland or the Alps, or evento Newport, or Saratoga, or Niagara,
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