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HOW GOVERNOR BUTLER WENT TO CAMBRIDGE.

In silk and eke in satin,

But all they at bold Butler smiled,

And recked not of the Latin.

Bold Ben Butler blushed and bowed,

And with his sheepskin fumbled;

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With undergraduate applause

The very ceilings rumbled.

Then Wendell Phillips laughed with glee,

And Theodore Lyman shouted;

But Zadoc Bowman wept aloud,

And Gen'ral Devens pouted.

Around the genial Mother's board

Her sons are all invited;

And at the head, with brow of gloom,

Sits Frisbee Hoar, the blighted.

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