He was the very life, and we
Predicted that Tom Percy's name
Would some day catch the breeze of fame.
As for myself, I had been bred
In Boston, - then the boasted head
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Of literature, and not as now
An echo of its long ago.
Mayhap, like most Bostonians, I
Was overproud of ancestry,
And vaunted of my Pilgrim stock,
And looked as stiff as Plymouth Rock;
Howe'er that be, with Tom and Jack
I kept my haughty manners back.
Our time was mostly spent together,
In stormy as in pleasant weather,
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