Poem: "The First Hymn"/notes and calculations for work
Entry/Object ID
HHV 002.1660
Collection
Van Cortlandt Manuscript Collection
Transcription
Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER VC 2477
OBJECT NAME poem, account
DATE
AUTHOR William Miller [?]
RECIPIENT
MEDIUM paper, ink
PEOPLE
PLACES
KEYWORDS
Source of poem, John Pierpont “On laying the Corner Stone of the Bunker Hill monument”:
https://archive.org/details/poetsofamericaw00chee/page/61/mode/1up?view=theater
https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/laying-corner-stone-bunker-hill-monument
The First Hymn
1st O is not this a holy spot
Tis the high place of freedom + [truth]
God of our fathers is it not
The holiest spot of all the Earth
2nd Quenched is thy flame on [horebs] side
The robber roams over Sinai now
And those old men thy seers abide
No more on Zion’s mournful brow
But on this hill thou Lord has dwelt
Sincc Since round its head the war cloud curled
And wrapped our fathers where they knelt
IN prayer and battle for a world
3rd Here sleeps their dust tis hold ground
And we the children of the brave
[END OF PAGE 1]
Rec’d The above in full of [page torn]
[an–??-d] by me William Mil-[page torn]
Thirty-six
Jas Spock days work @ [CALACULTIONS] [page torn]
Jas Travis
Reuben [Criss?on?]
N N Nothing
Jas Spock [??] 4/[?] days in laying @ [??]
Per day … $3.37/2
________________________
James Travis
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Reuben C-[??]
[FULL PAGE 2 NOT TRANSCRIBED - ILLEGIBLE, PAGE TORN]
[ON SIDE]
Whether or not this is so this from your [??] + [??]
[??] [Mrs?] Corltandt Westchester
County in the State of New York
