Poem given at a banquet for victorious chess prodigy Paul Morphy. Lowell explains how he decided to give the speech in verse, and his opinion on speeches in general before toasting Morphy.
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MENTIONED IN - James Russell Lowell's Poem at the Monthly Banquet, Boston, May 31, 1859.
