Contains beside Grandmother's story of Bunker Hill battle, some thirty other patriotic and narrative poems by Dr. Holmes, such as Old Ironsides, Ballad of the Boston tea-party, Lexington, Dorothy Q, Chambered Nautilus, Robinson of Leyden, etc., with portrait and notes."
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