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CITY OF BOSTON.
In Common Council, September 17, 1830.
Ordered, That the Committee of Arrangements for the celebrationof this day be, and they are hereby, directed to present thethanks of the City Council to Charles Sprague, Esquire, for theelegant, interesting and instructive Poem, this day pronounced byhim, and respectfully request a copy thereof for the press.
Sent up for Concurrence,
B. T. PICKMAN, President.
In the Board of Aldermen, September 20, 1830.
Read and concurred.
H. G. OTIS, Mayor.
A true copy—Attest,
S. F. M’CLEARY, City Clerk.
Boston, September 17, 1830.
Charles Sprague, Esq.
The Undersigned, the Committee of Arrangements for the CentennialCelebration of the Settlement of Boston, have the honor toenclose you an attested copy of a vote of the City Council, and respectfullyask your compliance with the request contained therein.
Harrison Gray Otis,
Benjamin Russell,
Winslow Lewis,
Benjamin T. Pickman,
Thomas Minns,
Joseph Eveleth,
John W. James,
John P. Bigelow,
Washington P. Gragg.
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ODE.
I.
Not to the Pagan’s mount I turn,
For inspiration now;
Olympus and its gods I spurn—
Pure One, be with me, Thou!
Thou, in whose awful name,
From suffering and from shame,
Our Fathers fled, and braved a pathless sea;
Thou, in whose holy fear,
They fixed an empire here,
And gave it to their Children and to Thee.
II.
And You! ye bright ascended Dead,
Who scorned the bigot’s yoke,
Come, round this place your influence shed;
Your spirits I invoke.
Come, as ye came of yore,
When on an unknown shore,
Your daring hands the flag of faith unfurled,
To float sublime,
Through future time,
The beacon-banner of another world.
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