[Rarebooks] FS: 1840 Dartmouth College Ode in our new Bookin'! issue

Joslin Hall Rare Books office at joslinhall.com
Thu Feb 6 07:02:37 EST 2014


 From the new issue of BOOKIN'!
<http://www.joslinhall.com/Bookin-9.pdf>

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AN ODE, Sung by the Graduating Class of Dartmouth College, July, 1840.
Hanover; E.A. Allen, Printer: 1840.

A 9-stanza song which begins- "And is it so, that we no more / Together 
meet in classic halls? / No longer search for hidden lore / Within these 
long accustom'd walls?" The apparently original composition goes on to 
hit most of the points such odes do- we met strangers, part lifelong 
friends, so long to the good, easy life, and so on, but also strikes on 
one important point nearer everyday life in the 19th century than the 
20th or 21st- "But retrospection brings to mind / Names once recorded 
with our own / Who now have answer'd Death's demand / And though they 
live, from us they're gone". The last lines show that life in rural New 
Hampshire bordering Vermont is much the same now as it was then- 
"Farewell, these Academic shades / These quiet walks - these sweet 
alcoves- / These tow'ring hills and hidden glades / These pleasant 
streams, and shady groves".

Single sheet. 4.5"x7.5". Unevenly cut. Minor soil. [40050] $100-

PRICE: $100-

A PICTURE =>
<http://www.joslinhall.com/images394/th-40050-cover.jpg>


See this & more in the new issue of BOOKIN'!
<http://www.joslinhall.com/Bookin-9.pdf>


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