BLOWS through the bending elms the summer breeze,
And wanton Pleasure to the College halls trips light;
The evil genius Cram in blue-booked garments flees,
And ushers in Commencement's rum delight.
Then Alma Mater doth in honor dwell
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Parturient with her yearly brood;
The callow chickens tap against the shell,
The envious bar to intellectual food;
She welcomes all alike, - swell Dives' child,
Fresh from his revel in heaps of coined gold,
And him on whom fair Fortune ne'er has smiled,
On whom the Minx has turned her shoulder cold.
Upon the latter Harvard largess showers,
His tedious digging yields most plenteous crops;
The former, she - or rather Harvard's powers -
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