Excerpt from Happy Thoughts
Harvard College, Cambridge, made to pay;
Which its founders built in an early day,
The State full of towns and people gay,
Now a Cape Cod canal, a ship's highway,
Between Massachusetts and Buzzard's Bay,
Yankees as ever working away.
"The Old Colony" some fine folks knew,
Joseph Dudly, a Colonial Governor true,
And from his loins a poet grew,
So I was born from purest blue blood blue,
With two ancestors who to Lexington flew,
Starting this country for me and you.
The metropolis, Boston, of renown,
That to no known superior has to look down,
And was and is a brilliant town!
With its "Boston Common," where one walks round,
Sea ships making this port or outward bound,
Pilots aboard who all conditions sound.
Note: I had three ancestors in the Revolutionary War - Captain John Parker and William Dudly at Lexington and Dr. Daniel Cony at Saratoga.
The Mysterious Sea
O, the sea, the mysterious sea,
Is surging, whispering, begging for me,
To come again and view its majesty!
Where to old Neptune we bow the knee,
A sea god of calms and harmony,
Or a giant of much calamity,
Whatever his humor happens to be.
And while man seems a master,
He meets with disaster,
When storms O, sea, sweep over thee.
While oft thy white waves are the watery graves,
Of souls gone from thy depths,
To God and eternity.
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