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Undergraduate Literary Exercises in Sanders Theatre.

And Harvard hon'ring all, and fain to pay

Her debt of love to those who fought and fell,

Has built a stately hall her love to tell.

Pray heaven that war may never come again

To fill the nation's heart with grief and hate.

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But strife will come and with it woe and pain,

And bloodless battles will be fought, as great

As those of war, and men will freely spend

Their lives to add unto the truth some light;

And in this strife must Harvard join and lend

Her learning and her zeal to those that fight

Against all evil things and to uphold the right.

Old Harvard's stream must ever onward sweep

Still wid'ning, blessing, lab'ring, singing, strong

With youth, joyous with hope, and broad and deep

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