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 Adds Spartan steps to many a broken sword;

"Mother!" said a Spartan boy, going to battle, "My sword is too short." "Add a step to it," was the heroic reply.

 So Nelson watched,

See Southey's glowing life of the great naval hero.

 Yon fountain Nymph, &c.

This passage refers to the beautiful jet so recently introduced to add its graceful beauty to Boston Common. The old Elm Tree, standing near the Pond, is too well known to require a further notice here.

 Rome's cautious bard,

 On Talfourd's page, &c.

The "Final Memorials of Charles Lamb," recently published by his eminent biographer, have added a new and solemn interest to the character of Elia. Such an exhibition of self-sacrifice under similar circumstances was never made before. 