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samuel gilman - fair harvard lyrics

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[verse 1]

and with blessings surrender thee o’er
by these festival rites, from the age that is past,​
to the age that is waiting before.​
o relic and type of our ancestors’ worth
that hast long kept their memory warm,​
first flow’r of their wilderness! star of their night!​
calm rising thro’ change and thro’ storm.​

[verse 2]
to thy bow’rs we were led in the bloom of our youth,​
from the home of our infantile years,​
when our fathers had warn’d, and our mothers had pray’d,​
and our sisters had blest thro’ their tears.​
thou then wert our parent, the nurse of our soul;​
we were molded to manhood by thee,​
’til freighted with treasure thoughts, friendships and hopes,​
thou didst launch us on destiny’s sea.​

[verse 3]
when as pilgrims we come to revisit thy halls,​
to what kindlings the season gives birth!​
thy shades are more soothing, thy sunlight more dear,​
than descend on less privileged earth.​
for the good and the great, in their beautiful prime,​
thro’ thy precincts have musingly trod,​
as they girded their spirits or deepen’d the streams
that make glad the fair city of god.​
[verse 4]
farewell! be thy destinies onward and bright!​
to thy children the lesson still give,​
with freedom to think, and with patience to bear,​
and for right ever bravely to live.​
let not moss+covered error moor thee at its side,​
as the world on truth’s current glides by



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