DELIVERED BEFORE THE SOCIETY OF UNITED BROTHERS, AT BROWN UNIVERSITY, ON THE DAY PRECEDING COMMENCEMENT, SEPTEMBER 6, 1831. WITH OTHER POEMS. BY N. P. WILLIS. New-York: PUBLISHED BY J. & J. HARPER, NO. 82 CLIFF-STREET. AND SOLD BY THE PRINCIPAL BOOKSELLERS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES. 1831. AL 4168.220 HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirtyone, by J. & J. Harper, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New-York. TO ONE OF WHOM, IN THIS MOMENT OF DEPARTURE FOR A FOREIGN LAND, I THINK, SADLY AND ONLY TO MY MOTHER, THIS VOLUME IS, WITH THE DEEPEST AFFECTION OF HER SON, FONDLY AND RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED. 3 |