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The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Complete

Book 1 — NOTES.

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Page 6. "They're as safe as Dan'l Malcolm." The following epitaph is still to be read on a tall grave-stone standing as yet undisturbed among the transplanted monuments of the dead in Copp's Hill Burial-Ground, one of the three city cemeteries which have been desecrated and ruined within my own remembrance:—

"Here lies buried in a Stone Grave 10 feet deep, Cap' DANIEL MALCOLM Merch' Who departed this Life October 23d, 1769, Aged 44 years, a true son of Liberty, a Friend to the Publick, an Enemy to oppression, and one of the foremost in opposing the Revenue Acts on America."

Page 62. This broad-browed youth. Benjamin Robbins Curtis.

Page 62. The stripling smooth of face and slight. George Tyler Bigelow.

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