Copyright, 1848, 1857, 1866, 1868, 1869, 1876, 1885, 1888, and 1890, By JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. All rights reserved. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. With a whole bale of isms tied together with He might get on alone, spite of brambles and But he can't with that bundle he has on his shoulders, The top of the hill he will ne'er come nigh reach ing Till he learns the distinction 'twixt singing and His lyre has some chords that would ring pretty But he'd rather by half make a drum of the And rattle away till he's old as Methusalem, At the head of a march to the last new Jerusa- |