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POEMS BY EMINENT HANDS.

THE GATHERING OF THE FRESHMEN.

Her life completely fled.

But hark! at once a shout there rings,

And terror, as a mantle, flings

O'er dames and men as well.

It comes from Ober's, and afar

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From hostel that is kept by Par-

Ker, and from Atwood's famous bar,

Still more from Young's Hotel.

Nor hence alone, but from the slums,

And, gathering strength, still on it comes,

A genuine Freshman yell.

The p'licemen fled - 't was not their beat -

Before the tread of countless feet

That on and on, across the ridge

Of Beacon, and Charles River bridge,

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