written for the occasion by Dr. Littell, and sung with much effect by the company. The entertainment was altogether a most agreeable and elegant tribute, and a fitting closing scene to the professional career of one who has done so much to dignify and illustrate American medicine."—North American Gazette, May, 1860.
Tune—Auld Lang Syne.
Justum et tenacem virum.
We gather round the festal board
A parting friend to greet,
And render to his high desert
A tribute that is meet.
For he by years of earnest toil
Has won himself a name
Which long shall be with pride enrolled
Upon the scroll of Fame.
No doubtful means, no devious paths
E'er lured his feet aside;
But honor, with unfaltering step,
Has ever been his guide.
The cynic, who his lantern bore
Each passing face to scan,
Had found, what he so vainly sought,
In him an honest man.
With open hand and generous aim—
In Truth's own arms arrayed—
He many a feat of high emprise
And gentle deed essayed.
And now he from the field retires—
His shield without a stain—
And shall we from such knightly worth
Our health of hearts refrain?
