. The history of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the young; being also in some part the history of other towns and cities in the county of Hampden. Our memory wakes, and we recallThe little, dreary, sandy yard. The schoolroom with its dingy wall,The straight-backed benches, stiffhard; and The songs, long since, gone out of which the schoolroom used to ring; And the old-fashioned book and , we remember everything. But over all has come a change:This is an unfamiliar place; The only thing that is not strangeIs our beloved teachers face. Oh, could we take our dusty

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. The history of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the young; being also in some part the history of other towns and cities in the county of Hampden. Our memory wakes, and we recallThe little, dreary, sandy yard. The schoolroom with its dingy wall,The straight-backed benches, stiffhard; and The songs, long since, gone out of which the schoolroom used to ring; And the old-fashioned book and , we remember everything. But over all has come a change:This is an unfamiliar place; The only thing that is not strangeIs our beloved teachers face. Oh, could we take our dusty once more trudge away sit beneath those gracious looksThat softened een the strictestrule,. This is an Unfamiliar Place.

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