Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Riverside song book — A Ballad of the Boston Tea PartyS (1893)
“ The live - ly bar - ber skips a - long And form - ing,— A rush, and up the Dartmouth's side The purr - ing. So hap - py while the tea is poured, So spin - dle The pa - tient flax, how great a flame Yon crum - bled. It climbs and clasps the un - ion - jack. Its feast in con - tem - pla - tion, No silk - robed dames, no leaves a chin half lath - ered; The smith has flung Mo - hawk band is swarm - ing! See the fierce na - tives! blest while spoons are stirr - ing, What mar tyr can com - lit - tle spark shall kin - dle! The lur - id morn - ing bla - zoned pomp is hum - bled. ”
