...Holmes, the genial autocrat, are familiar : "And there's a nice youngster of excellent pith — Kate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith, But he shouted a song for the brav; and the free — Just read on his medal, ' My country, of thee !' " That he himself from the...

...he spoke for our manhood in syllabled fire, We called him "The Justice," but now he's "The Squire." And there's a nice youngster of excellent pith, —...— Just read on his medal, " My country," " of thee ! " You hear that boy laughing ? — You think he's all fun ; But the angels laugh, too, at the good...

...our manhood in syllabled fire, We called him "The Justice," but now he 's "The Squire." And there 'sa nice youngster of excellent pith, — Fate tried to...— Just read on his medal, "My country," "of thee! " You hear that boy laughing? — You think he 's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he...

...thousands of the late Dr. Holmes's admirers will remember the lines in his famous " Reunion Poem," " The Boys": " And there's a nice youngster of excellent...pith ; Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith 1 But he shouted a song for tlie brave and the freeJust read on his medal, ' My Country, of Thee !...

...he spoke for our manhood in syllabled fire, We called him "The Justice," but now he's "The Squire." And there's a nice youngster of excellent pith, — Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith ; P.ut he shouted a song for the brave and the free, — Just read on his medal, " My country," "of...

...well known class poem entitled "The Boys," pays a very neat tribute to the author of " America. — " "And there's a nice youngster of excellent pith, —...Just read on his medal, ' My country,' ' of thee!' ' To be the author of such a hymn is enough for one man to carry on his medal. It was written without...

...tenderly lamented the dead, and merrily hailed the living, as, for example, his reverend fellow-poet, " a nice youngster of excellent pith, —. Fate tried...free,— Just read on his medal, ' My country,' ' of thee !' " Holmes had tried his hand at verse while still a boy at Phillips. At Harvard he won undergraduate...

...the author, his class-mate Oliver Wendell Holmes refers in the lines: — " And there 'sa nice fellow of excellent pith, Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith." MY country ! 't is of thee, Sweet land of Liberty, Of thee I sing; Land where my fathers died; Land...

...class with Oliver Wendell Holmea who, in his class poem, " The Boys," speaks of him as follows : — And there's a nice youngster of excellent pith, Fate...free, Just read on his medal " My Country of Thee." Samuel Smith studied theology at Andover Seminary and became a Baptist clergyman. He edited the " Baptist...

...things in such apt phraseology, said of Mr. Smith in a happy little distick: "And there's a fellow of excellent pith, Fate tried to conceal him by naming...the free, Just read on his medal — 'My Country, 'tis of thee.' " He claimed the air was still older than "God Save the King," being adapted from the...