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HOW GOVERNOR BUTLER WENT TO CAMBRIDGE.

Throughout the lofty pictured hall

Cigars diffuse aroma;

'Tis told, with awe, Ben lighted his

With his brand new diploma.

"My Brethren," Frisbee feebly says,

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"Against the pricks no use it's

To kick : I introduce to you

The Boss of Massachusetts."

The older graduates rose up,

The younger cried 'Rah, 'Rah, too,

The whey-faced bookworms meekly said,

"This thing is Ben trovato."

And when His Excellency rose,

John Hancock, who is painted

Upon the wall, at once jumped down,

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