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THE CRIME

Ode on the Expectation of Defeating Harvard in the Contest to Determine the Final Supremacy of Roxbury Over the Widow Nolen's School by One of William's Lion Whelps.

NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED

From scholar's introductions

To poetical productions

I add my own deductions,

To win or die for Yale.

From critical opinions

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Of Arnold and his minions,

I search the wide dominions

Of English literature.

For weighty words that treasure

Thought, like Pope, in pithy measure,

Until it is my pleasure

To win or die for Yale.

For I make it my contention

That, in spite of all convention,

A Harvard man's pretention

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