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While reaching for sixty I played a child's game, But I leaped to the front in the elephant dance. From earliest years overlooked by Fame, While reaching for sixty I played a child's game. Old dignified friends, who are more or less lame, Think me monstrous and strange, in search of mischance— While reaching for sixty I played a child's game, But I leaped to the front in the elephant dance.

LEAST YET GREATEST

We long for thy kingdom, O little child, Thy kingdom of trust with a reign so mild; No soaring eagle e'er mounted such crest, As thou, high enthroned on thy fond mother's breast; And, like the sweet song of some innocent bird Thy cooing is Love reaching after a word.

OLD SHIP CHURCH

Old Ship Church, (First Parish), Hingham, Mass., built in 1681, said to be the oldest church in the United States, where continuous services have been held.

Be mine thy throb of pulsing heart, Old Ship, When sermon, song and prayer were wont to hold And guide the fathers, pioneers of old; The men who held the truth with steadfast grip—