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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472344" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Song Of</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE summer dawn is breaking<br>On Auburn's tangled bowers,<br>The golden light is waking<br>On Harvard's ancient towers;<br>The sun is in the sky<br>That must see us do or die,<br>Ere it shine on the line<br>Of the CLASS OF '29.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At last the day is ended,<br>The tutor screws no more,<br>By doubt and fear attended<br>Each hovers round the door,<br>Till the good old Praeses cries,<br>While the tears stand in his eyes,<br>'You have passed, and are classed<br>With the Boys of '29.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not long are they in making<br>The college halls their own,<br>Instead of standing shaking,<br>Too bashful to be known;<br>But they kick the Seniors' shins<br>Ere the second week begins,<br>When they stray in the way<br>Of the BOYS OF '29.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If a jolly set is trolling<br>The last _Der Freischutz_ airs,<br>Or a 'cannon bullet' rolling<br>Comes bouncing down the stairs,<br>The tutors, looking out,<br>Sigh, 'Alas! there is no doubt,<br>'T is the noise of the Boys<br>Of the CLASS OF '29.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Four happy years together,<br>By storm and sunshine tried,<br>In changing wind and weather,<br>They rough it side by side,<br>Till they hear their Mother cry,<br>'You are fledged, and you must fly,'<br>And the bell tolls the knell<br>Of the days of '29.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Since then, in peace or trouble,<br>Full many a year has rolled,<br>And life has counted double<br>The days that then we told;<br>Yet we'll end as we've begun,<br>For though scattered, we are one,<br>While each year sees us here,<br>Round the board of '29.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though fate may throw between us<br>The mountains or the sea,<br>No time shall ever wean us,<br>No distance set us free;<br>But around the yearly board,<br>When the flaming pledge is poured,<br>It shall claim every name<br>On the roll of '29.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To yonder peaceful ocean<br>That glows with sunset fires,<br>Shall reach the warm emotion<br>This welcome day inspires,<br>Beyond the ridges cold<br>Where a brother toils for gold,<br>Till it shine through the mine<br>Round the Boy of '29.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If one whom fate has broken<br>Shall lift a moistened eye,<br>We'll say, before he 's spoken--<br>'Old Classmate, don't you cry!<br>Here, take the purse I hold,<br>There 's a tear upon the gold--<br>It was mine-it is thine--<br>A'n't we BOYS OF '29?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As nearer still and nearer<br>The fatal stars appear,<br>The living shall be dearer<br>With each encircling year,<br>Till a few old men shall say,<br>'We remember 't is the day--<br>Let it pass with a glass<br>For the CLASS OF '29.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As one by one is falling<br>Beneath the leaves or snows,<br>Each memory still recalling,<br>The broken ring shall close,<br>Till the nightwinds softly pass<br>O'er the green and growing grass,<br>Where it waves on the graves<br>Of the BOYS OF '29!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Oliver+Wendell+Holmes">Oliver Wendell Holmes</a><div class=q>
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On Auburn's tangled bowers,
The golden light is waking
On Harvard's ancient towers;
The sun is in the sky
That must see us do or die,
Ere it shine on the line
Of the CLASS OF '29.

At last the day is ended,
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