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With tears I leave these academic bowers	A
And cease to cull the scientific flowers	A
With tears I hail the fair succeeding train	B
And take my exit with a breast of pain	B
The Fresh may trace these wonders as they smile	C
The stream of science like the river Nile	C
Reflecting mental beauties as it flows	D
Which all the charms of College life disclose	D
This sacred current as it runs refines	E
Whilst Byron sings and Shakspeare's mirror shines	E
First like a garden flower did I rise	F
When on the college bloom I cast my eyes	F
I strove to emulate each smiling gem	G
Resolved to wear the classic diadem	G
But when the Freshman's garden breeze was gone	H
Around me spread a vast extensive lawn	H
'Twas there the muse of college life begun	I
Beneath the rays of erudition's sun	I
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Where study drew the mystic focus down	J
And lit the lamp of nature with renown	J
There first I heard the epic thunders roll	K
And Homer's light'ning darted through my soul	K
Hard was the task to trace each devious line	L
Though Locke and Newton bade me soar and shine	L
I sunk beneath the heat of Franklin's blaze	M
And struck the notes of philosophic praise	M
With timid thought I strove the test to stand	N
Reclining on a cultivated land	N
Which often spread beneath a college bower	O
And thus invoked the intellectual shower	O
E'en that fond sire on whose depilous crown	J
The smile of courts and states shall shed renown	J
Now far above the noise of country strife	P
I frown upon the gloom of rustic life	P
Where no pure stream of bright distinction flows	D
No mark between the thistle and the rose	D
One's like a bird encaged and bare of food	Q
Borne by the fowler from his native wood	R
Where sprightly oft he sprung from spray to spray	S
And cheer'd the forest with his artless lay	S
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Or fluttered o'er the purling brook at will	T
Sung in the dale or soar'd above the hill	T
Such are the liberal charms of college life	P
Where pleasure flows without a breeze of strife	P
And such would be my pain if cast away	S
Without the blooms of study to display	S
Beware ye college birds again beware	U
And shun the fowler with his subtile snare	U
Nor fall as one from Eden stript of all	V
The life and beauty of your native hall	V
Nor from the garden of your honor go	W
Whence all the streams of fame and wisdom flow	W
Where brooding Milton's theme purls sweet along	X
With Pope upon the gales of epic song	X
Where you may trace a bland Demosthenes	D
Whose oratoric pen ne'er fails to please	D
And Plato with immortal Cicero	W
And with the eloquence of Horace glow	W
There cull the dainties of a great Ainsworth	Y
Who sets the feast of ancient language forth	Z
Or glide with Ovid on his simple stream	A2
And catch the heat from Virgil's rural beam	A2
Through Addison you trace creation's fire	O
And all the rapid wheels of time admire	B2
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Or pry with Paley's theologic rays	D
And hail the hand of wisdom as you gaze	D
Up Murray's pleasant hill you strive to climb	C2
To gain a golden summit all sublime	C2
And plod through conic sections all severe	D2
Which to procure is pleasure true and dear	D2
The students' pensive mind is often stung	E2
Whilst blundering through the Greek and Latin tongue	E2
Parsing in grammars which may suit the whole	K
And will the dialect of each control	K
Now let us take a retrospective view	F2
And whilst we pause observe a branch or two	F2
Geography and Botany unfold	G2
Their famous charms like precious seeds of gold	G2
Zoology doth all her groups descry	D2
And with Astronomy we soar on high	H2
But pen and ink and paper all would fail	I2
To write one third of this capacious tale	I2
Geography presents her flowery train	B
Describes the mountain and surveys the plain	B
Measures the sounding rivers as they grow	D2
Unto the trackless deeps to which they flow	D2
She measures well her agriculture's stores	D
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Which meet her commerce on the golden shore	D2
Includes the different seasons of the year	D2
And changes which pervade the atmosphere	D2
Treats of the dread phenomena which rise	D
In different shapes on earth or issue from the skies	D
She points in truth to Lapland's frozen clime	C2
And nicely measures all the steps of time	C2
Unfolds the vast equator's burning line	L
Where all the stores of heat dissolve and shine	L
Describes the earth as unperceived she rolls	D
Her well poised axis placed upon the poles	D
Botany whose charms her florists well display	S
Whose lavish odours swell the pomp of May	S
Whose curling wreaths the steady box adorn	J2
And fill with fragrance all the breeze of morn	J2
Through various means her plants are oft applied	K2
Improved by art and well by nature tried	K2
Thro' her the stores of herbage are unroll'd	K2
All which compose the vegetable world	K2
Even the sensitives which feel and shrink	L2
From slightest touches though they cannot think	L2
Not yet rejoice void of the power to fear	D2
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Or sense to smell to see to taste or hear	D2
Zoology with her delightful strain	B
Doth well the different animals explain	B
From multipedes to emmets in the dust	K2
And all the groveling reptiles of disgust	K2
She well descries the filthy beetle blind	K2
With insects high and low of every kind	K2
She with her microscope surveys the mite	K2
Which ne'er could be beheld by naked sight	K2
Thence she descends into the boundless deep	M2
Where dolphins play and monsters slowly creep	M2
Explores the foaming main from shore to shore	D2
And hears with awe the dshing sea bull roar	D2
Traces enormous whales exploding high	H2
Their floods of briny water to the sky	H2
Desribes the quadrupeds of ever shape	N2
The bear the camel elephant and ape	N2
And artful monkey which but lack to talk	O2
And like the human kind uprightly walk	O2
Astronomy with her aerial powers	D
Lifts us above this dreary globe of ours	D
Throughout the realms of ether's vast expanse	D
Her burning wings our towering minds advance	D
Measures her tropic well from line to line	L
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And marks her rolling planets as they shine	L
Describes the magnitude of every star	D2
And thence pursues her comets as they roll afar	D2
But nature never yet was half explored	K2
Though by philosopher and bard adored	K2
Astronomer and naturalist expire	D2
And languish that they could ascend no higher	D2
Expositors of words in every tongue	E2
Writers of prose and scribblers of song	X
Would fail with all their mathematic powers	D
And vainly study out their fleeting hours	D
Sir Walter Raleigh Pen and Roberson	I
With Morse and Snowden who are dead and gone	H
They all were though mused their lives away	S
And left ten thousand wonders to display	S
And though the fiery chemists probe the mine	L
The subterraneous bodies to define	L
Though melting flames the force of matter try	H2
Rocks mix'd with brass and gold to pieces fly	H2
And those who follow the electric muse	D
Amidst the wilds of vast creation loose	D
Themselves like pebbles in the swelling main	B
And strive for naught these wanders to explain	B
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Galvin himself the monarch of the whole	K
Would blush his empty parchments to unroll	K
These different branches to one ocean go	D2
Where all the streams of life together flow	D2
Where perfect wisdom swells the tide of joy	P2
A tide which must eternity employ	P2
A boundless sea of love without a shore	D2
Whose pleasure ebbs and flows forever more	D2
Volume Divine O thou the sacred dew	K2
Thy fadeless fields see elders passing through	K2
Thy constant basis must support the whole	K
The cabinet and alcove of the soul	K
It matters not through what we may have pass'd	K2
To thee for sure support we fly at last	K2
Encyclopedias we may wander o'er	D2
And study every scientific lore	D2
Ancient and modern authors we may read	K2
The soul must starve or on thy pastures feed	K2
These bibliothic charms would surely fall	K
And life grow dim within this college wall	K
The wheels of study in the mind would tire	D2
If not supported by thy constant fire	D2
Greatest of all the precepts ever taught	K2
Maps and vocabularies dearly bought	K2
Burns with his harp Scott Cambell and their flowers	D
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Will shrink without the everlasting showers	D
Theology	Q2

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