I just looked it up in my 1941 edition of Carolyn Wells' The Book of Humorous Verse (which I regard as sort of the mother of anthologies of comic verse.)
It's on page 947, under the title of ON THE ARISTOCRACY OF HARVARD, anthored by Dr. Samuel G Bushnell.
I come from good old Boston,
The home of the bean and the cod;
Where the Cabots speak only to Lowells,
And the Lowells speak only to God!
I suspect there are several variations out there.
I think it was also in a thick high school history book, The American Pageant, by Thomas Bailey, used in the late 1960s. And, undoubtedly, in back issues of American Heritage magazine
Last edited by Douglas G. Brown; 12-19-2014 at 08:38 AM.
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