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When the Puritans came over	A
Our hills and swamps to clear	B
The woods were full of catamounts	C
And Indians red as deer	B
With tomahawks and scalping knives	C
That make folks' heads look queer	B
Oh the ship from England used to bring	D
A hundred wigs a year	B
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The crows came cawing through the air	E
To pluck the Pilgrims' corn	F
The bears came snuffing round the door	G
Whene'er a babe was born	F
The rattlesnakes were bigger round	H
Than the but of the old rams horn	F
The deacon blew at meeting time	I
On every Sabbath morn	F
	-
But soon they knocked the wigwams down	J
And pine tree trunk and limb	K
Began to sprout among the leaves	C
In shape of steeples slim	K
And out the little wharves were stretched	L
Along the ocean's rim	K
And up the little school house shot	M
To keep the boys in trim	K
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And when at length the College rose	C
The sachem cocked his eye	N
At every tutor's meagre ribs	C
Whose coat tails whistled by	N
But when the Greek and Hebrew words	C
Came tumbling from his jaws	C
The copper colored children all	O
Ran screaming to the squaws	C
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And who was on the Catalogue	P
When college was begun	Q
Two nephews of the President	R
And the Professor's son	Q
They turned a little Indian by	N
As brown as any bun	Q
Lord how the seniors knocked about	S
The freshman class of one	Q
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They had not then the dainty things	C
That commons now afford	T
But succotash and hominy	U
Were smoking on the board	T
They did not rattle round in gigs	C
Or dash in long tailed blues	C
But always on Commencement days	C
The tutors blacked their shoes	C
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God bless the ancient Puritans	C
Their lot was hard enough	V
But honest hearts make iron arms	C
And tender maids are tough	V
So love and faith have formed and fed	W
Our true born Yankee stuff	V
And keep the kernel in the shell	X
The British found so rough	V

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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