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Excerpt from An Address Delivered Before the Association of the Alumni of Harvard College, July 20, 1854 As I entered the harbor of Boston, after an absence of more than a year; as I gazed upon the islands and shores reposing under a lovely evening sky In May, and upon the lighted mansions, where happiness and free dom nestle secure; as, an hour after, the halls of Har vard greeted my View, and the lights from students' rooms, and from the dwellings of friends and neigh bors, streamed through the evening air, the familiar lines of the poet involuntary moved harmonious num bers in my memory: Breathes there a man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.