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MATER FORTISSIMA.

PHI BETA KAPPA POEM, JUNE 25, 1903.

Be it city strong and fair,

Be it east or west that his eyes shall rest,

He sees New England there.

Be it east or west that his eyes shall rest,

New England stands the same;

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For God and the right, at the front of the fight

Are the men that bear her name.

For the message of the Master

She has breathed with every breath;

And come what will, New England still

Shall be faithful unto death.

Harvard, all hall to the mother that reared thee,

Mother whose grace and whose glory thou art!

Hail to New England, who loved thee and cheered thee,

Nestling thee close to her heroine's heart!

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