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MATER FORTISSIMA.

PHI BETA KAPPA POEM, JUNE 25, 1903.

Harvard had heroes then:

Perkins and Dalton and Savage and Shaw,

Lowell, and Lowell again:

First in counsel and first to ride

To death as the bridegroom to meet the bride--

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Lovers and leaders of men.

There is one who knew them and loved them well,

Never a braver than he.

Like them he fought and like them he fell;

Yet he lives to wear with a soldier's grace

The scar of the sword-cut on his face;

He lives to work in the wondrous light

That shone for the shepherds on Christmas night;

With heart to love and with hand to guide

He nobly lives as he would have died,

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