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[79] Common. His love for the city itself is betrayed in the last of the three verses quoted below:
I always like a Boston carnival—1
     And nothing better than “election week” ;
It comes to all a happy annual—
     ('Tis not too late, in June, its scenes to seek;)
Schools are vacated—crowded is the mall
     With roguish boys, who Latin learn and Greek;
Senate and House are there—per diem pay
     Three dollars. Who on such terms would not play?

Light infantry parade, and that artillery
     Whose cognomen is “honorable and Ancient” ;
The ladies form a beautiful auxiliary,
     Fairer than summer flowers, and quite as transient;
And so they'd flock in crowds around a pillory—
     Most strange to tell! without a voice dissentient:
These creatures have a boundless curiosity,
     And are as noted for their fine verbosity.

I went to see the show in '27–
     To be precise, about four years ago;
(I think if our first parents had been driven
     From Paradise to Boston, their deep woe
Had lost its keenness—no place under heaven,
     For worth or loveliness, had pleased them so;
Particularly if they had resided
     In that fine house for David Sears2 provided.)

After staying awhile with Bennett, Mr. Garrison changed his abode and went to board with the Rev. William Colier, a Baptist city missionary, who lived at No. 30 Federal Street (on the east side), near Milk. To Mr. Collier belongs the credit of having established the first paper in the world devoted mainly to the temperance cause, and advocating total abstinence from the use of intoxicating liquors. On the 4th of March, 1826, the same month in which Mr. Garrison began his editorial career on the Free Press, the first number of the

1 Lib. 1.92.

2 The granite ‘swell-front’ on Beacon Street, now (1885) occupied by the Somerset Club.

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