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Undergraduate Literary Exercises in Sanders Theatre.

Across the sober tints of college life,

When some young magnate of the West arrays

Himself in gorgeousness, his dress all rife

In bright, barbaric hues, and so essays

Ehe war dance and the tomahawk doth raise?

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Our College in the years that saw her young,

And like young mothers full of love and care

And foolish fear, around her children flung

Her arms too close, nor granted them that share

Of trust and freedom they in justice craved,

But growing wiser as the years went by

She loosed the petty irksome bonds and saved

Their love for her and taught them to descry

In her a friend and not a crafty spy.

Many brave hopes Fair Harvard's fountain fed.

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