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A CLASS POEM.

READ AT THE JUNIOR CLASS SUPPER.

I.

UNHAPPY man upon whose helpless wit

Depends the task to prove himself a poet!

Oh aid me, Nine, to make a three base hit,

And if at any time I need a rhyme

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With agony I pray ye to bestow it.

II.

The thought of Eighty-two's all matchless worth

Would wake in any breast poetic feeling:

Never a class existed on the earth

Which in the Freshman year with modest fear

Succeeded so in all its powers concealing.

III.

And when as Sophs the class together came,

And freedom found to give its powers expression,

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