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THE LAMENT OF THE PHI BETA KAPPA.

BY L-RD B-R-N.

THERE was a sound of revelry by night,

And Harvard's Senior Class had gathered then

The flower of all her scholarship, - and bright

The lamps shone o'er her hardest-grinding men.

Phi Beta Kappa's heart beat happily, and when

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Lips that had kissed the Muses oft of yore

Sipped lemonade, and sipped and sipped again,

Each got as tipsy as a Sophomore,

And made such music as was never made before.

Ah! then and there was hurrying to and fro,

And in hot haste the throng did wildly press;

From Young's Hotel these bold bad men did go,

And smiled at thought of their own wickedness;

For they 'd fain walk to Cambridge, - nothing less.

Holding each other up, along they reeled,

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