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��THE GRANITE MONTHLY.

��HYMN.

'I'll [hi' 6'cainen'.f Friend Socictu. Writh'n in 183fK

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��Vc, who o"i'r ocean roam. Shut out from joys of home

Far on the deep ; .Sport of the winds and waves. That from ^Eohis' eaves O'er men, their willing slaves.

Stern vigils keep :

Ve, who the works and ways. All glorious in praise.

Of God behold- As fearless ye pursue The waste of waters through. "Mid scenes for ever new,

Your journey bold:

When "to the heavens je mount. Ills wondrous deeds recount His praises sing I

��Wljen "to the depths go down"* "Mid angry ocean's frown l.- X"H Still do his mercies crown

��Each living thing.

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��His Woui) then for your chart!] Hind it to every heart.

And by it steer — Wide o'er the pathless sea. The Cross your pole-star be. And ne'er to vind or lee

Departing veer.

The halcyon calm of peace. Then o"er you ne"er shall cease

Its due control : Onward, at Heaveii"s behest. With crew for ever blest. 'I'he ship to port of rest

filorious sliall roll.

��TO

��I send 3'ou flowers, To make the hours

L'ass pleasantly and sweetlj^ When flowers decay, We know that they

Have duty done completely.

They never cloy, Nor lessen joy, Hut add thereunto often;

��And many know^ That pain and woe Their presence serves to soften.

The flowers I send

Full soon will blend Their beauty with the dead dust ;

But that which gives,

For ever lives, — My love, esteem, and trust.

G. W. Pattkhson.

��Washin(ton, D. C, Dec. 15th, 188.:;. John N. McL'i.intock, Esq.;

Dear Sir: — in looking over the list of portraits named in yom^ last num- ber, as being in the State House, I was pleased to see that it embraced the name of my old college classmate, at Norwich University, Col. Jesse A. Gove, " the gallant Jesse," than whom a more genial companion never lived. I was also pained to see that yon had omitted

��from the list my first army commander Gol. E. E. Cross, of the fighting 5th and my army associate. Maj. Edward Sturtevant, the first soldier in Ne^^ Hampshire to enlist in 1S61. There is no need of any ])ortraits to perpet- uate the memory of either, so long as brave deeds are remembered by our people.

\'ours tnilw

(';. W. I'.Ald.OCH.

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