is one of the most characteristic verses; but in the last stanza she wishes to construct a dam at the foot of Beacon Hill and cause a flood that would sweep the rebel sympathizers out of Boston. The office of the Blind Asylum was formerly near the middle of Bromfield Street on the southern side. This is now historic ground. Between 1850 and 1870 some of the most important national councils were held there in Dr. Howe's private office. It was the first place thatThe butcher came a walking flood,
Drenching the kitchen where he stood.
“Deucalion, is your name?” I pray.
“Moses,” he choked and slid away.Expluvior
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the universe had been offered to Emerson.”
She said this because Margaret Fuller was a woman.
Once, when writing for the newspapers was under discussion, Mrs. Howe remarked that in that kind of composition one felt prescribed like St. Simeon Stylites by the limitations of the column.
One of the best of her witty poems describes Boston on a rainy day, and is called “Expluvior,” an innocent parody on Longfellow's “Excelsior,” which, by the way, ought to have been called Excelsius.
1905. E. P. DUtton and Co. Boston,.
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