TO 
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, 
Schoolmate and Fellow Cotonsman, 
THESE POEMS ARE INSCRIBED. 
“ Alter ab undecimo tum me jam ceperat annus. 
Jam fragiles poteram a terra contingere ramos.” 
“Ver erat eternum; placidique tepentibus auris 
Mulcebant zephyri natos sine semine flores.” 
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., U. S. A,, 
1889. 
