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Specimens of American poetry

with critical and biographical notices

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Extempore on the fourth latin school being taken down to make room for enlarging the chapel church.

A fig for your learning, I tell you the town,
To make the church larger must pull the school down.
“Unluckily spoken,” replied Master Birch,
“Then learning, I fear, stops the growth of the church.”