Our hearts leap up with glad accord--
Judea's Bethlehem strain,
That once ascended to the Lord,
Floats back to earth again,
As round _our_ hills the echoes swell
To "God with us, Emanuel!"

O Power Divine, that led the star
To Mary's sinless Child!
O ray from heaven that beamed afar
And o'er his cradle smiled!
Help us to worship now with them
Who hailed the Christ at Bethlehem!

_James T. Fields, in The Granite Monthly._

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[Illustration: Boston and Vicinity. _Compiled and Drawn by
Col. Carrington_]


THE SIEGE OF BOSTON DEVELOPED.

BY HENRY B. CARRINGTON, U.S.A., LL.D.

[Author of The Battles of the American Revolution, etc.]