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Title: An Ode Pronounced Before the Inhabitants of Boston, September the Seventeenth, 1830,
at the Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of the City

Author: Charles Sprague

Release Date: September 16, 2007 [EBook #22626]

Language: English

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AN ODE:

pronounced before the
INHABITANTS OF BOSTON,

September the seventeenth, 1830,

at the
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
of the
SETTLEMENT OF THE CITY.

BY CHARLES SPRAGUE.

BOSTON:
John H. Eastburn ... City Printer.

MDCCCXXX.

CITY OF BOSTON.

In Common Council, September 17, 1830.

_Ordered_, That the Committee of Arrangements for the celebration of this
day be, and they are hereby, directed to present the thanks of the City
Council to CHARLES SPRAGUE, Esquire, for the elegant, interesting and
instructive Poem, this day pronounced by him, and respectfully request a
copy thereof for the press.

Sent up for Concurrence,
B. T. PICKMAN, _President_.

_In the Board of Aldermen, September 20, 1830._

Read and concurred.
H. G. OTIS, _Mayor_.

A true copy--Attest,
S. F. M'CLEARY, _City Clerk_.

_Boston, September 17, 1830._

Charles Sprague, Esq.

The Undersigned, the Committee of Arrangements for the Centennial
Celebration of the Settlement of Boston, have the honor to enclose you an
attested copy of a vote of the City Council, and respectfully ask your
compliance with the request contained therein.

Harrison Gray Otis,
Benjamin Russell,
Winslow Lewis,
Benjamin T. Pickman,
Thomas Minns,
Joseph Eveleth,
John W. James,
John P. Bigelow,
Washington P. Gragg.

ODE.

I.

Not to the Pagan's mount I turn,
For inspiration now;
Olympus