Adding to Jerome's interesting tidbits: Ewart's text and attribution (Samuel Bushnell) also appear in William Harmon's and John Gross's Oxford anthologies and in Russell Baker's for Norton. (Of the light verse anthologies on my shelves for which American verse qualifies, Michael Roberts's book for Faber, nearly four decades earlier than the others, is the only one that omits the poem, which the others title "Boston.")
Harmon's book came out a year before Ewart's.
If any of the four anthologies acknowledges a source or copyright holder, it isn't alphabetized under the name of the man they credit with writing the poem.
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