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—Jo, Han——Lin, Tim, Ca. Sam (uel) and Lin (coln) each had an eldest son, Benjamin Lincoln. One of these must have been the author of the poem, and along with our Mr. Hooper one of the schoolboys he tells of in his writing of the bower on p. 13, Vol. XXII, of the Register. We incline to the thought that he was son of the Benjamin Lincoln Swan who moved to New York. Lines on Revisiting a favorite spot Called the Bower, in the Woods of Medford, after several years' absence Beautiful Bower! my long-loved spot, In boyhood's sunny days, Happy and rare has been thy lot, For finger of change has marr'd thee not, Or spirit of cold decay. Touchingly true thy features look To memory's glistening eye; It knoweth them all—the shady nook— The dark grey rock and the little brook So merrily whirling by. The sinuous path with leaves bestrew'd, The bank with moss o'ergrown, The sunless gloom of the hemlock wood And that old sycamore tree that stood Just down by the stream alone. The