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[These stars represent the more clerical lines, and also those which have deceased.]

"That exiled band long since have passed away,

And still, Old Tree I thou standest in the place

Where Prince's hand did plant thee in his day—

An undesigned memorial of his race

And time; of those out honored fathers,

when They came from Plymouth o'er and settled here;

Doane, Higgins, Snow, and other worthy men.

Whose names their sons remember to revere.