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A NEW SONG FOR HARVARD.

TO BE SUNG TO THE TUNE OF "THE LOWBACKED CAR."

NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED

What plague o'erhangs "Fair Harvard"

The student to decoy?

What man can tell the potent spell

That binds my noble boy?

Time was when he could walk upright,

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With free and easy tread,

But now he reels from neck to heels

With bent and threatening head.

CHORUS.Oh, the gait of the Harvard "man!"

Describe it you who can:

'Twixt a swing and a swagger,

A stride and a stagger,

Oh, call it by name who can.

With arms outspread as if to fly,

And legs placed wide asunder;

To see him start quite fills my heart

With agonizing wonder.

Is this my boy? my pride and joy?

My fund of classic knowledge?

My stalwart Joe distorted so,

And all for Harvard College?

CHORUS.Oh, the gait of the Harvard "man!"

[Student.

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