4 FACTS RELATING TO GROTON, MASSACHUSETTS. 



Tho' Prudence bade, " Beware ! " 



He answer'd straight, " I dare ! " 

 And swept like retribution on tlie foes; 



Put compromises by — 



Half-truth is still half-lie — 

 Nor barter'd his convictions for repose. 



He heard but to despise 



The precepts worldly-wise 

 That check the vanward impulse of the soul — 



The sly, corrosive doubts, 



The cynic sneer that flouts 

 All virtue and denies the unseen goal. 



Years never palsied him 



With disillusions grim, 

 Nor taught the lie that numbers most avail; 



He held that not to fight 



For Freedom and for Right — 

 Our captains — is the coward's way to fail. 



He was not overborne 



By ridicule or scorn. 

 Nor daunted by the dangers of the time ; 



He even could resist 



The friends whose love he missed, 

 The comrades of the causes of his prime. 



To suffer and endure. 



To keep the spirit pure — 

 The fortress and abode of holy Truth — 



To serye eternal things, 



What'e'er the issue brings, 

 This is not broken Age, but ageless Youth. 



In the year 1902 Governor Boutvvell wrote his "Remi- 

 niscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs," which contains a 

 large amount of historical information in regard to public 

 matters. It is a work well worth reading by anyone who 

 wishes to learn the policy of the Government during an 

 eventful period in its history. Several of the Chapters, V-IX, 

 contain much of special interest to the citizens of the town, 

 as they deal with his early career. By the consent of the 

 publishers of the work, Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Co., 

 of New York, I reprint them, with their original headings, and 

 for this courtesy my thanks are due. 



