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--
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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