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Reminiscence
Our college days and college ways
Soon are done forever. For student life speeds quickly on, And. like I lie Maylhne, soon are gone,
The days we've spent together.
Four years ago we came to know A student's hopes and Fears, For limes of labor oft in vain. Times For pleasure, limes of pain, Have mingled through the years.
Through breeze or gale with unfurled sai
Adown lime's silent stream, Though clouds obscuring veiled the sun, We held our onward mystic run
Towards learning's distant gleam.
Though Fog hells fang and sirens sang
Upon the Fatal shoal. Yet one by one our shallops sped Beyond the reel's of Fear and dread,
I n quest of life's I rue goal.
Joy forever, sorrow ever, And sometimes yearning for returning
Has not been our share; Should we come again,
For each, though wandering through the vales In the springtime, when the flowers
Of gentlest peace where joy prevails. Are in bloom their perfumed bowers
Must yet some burden bear. AVill strengthen friendship's chain.
'Tis like the gleaming and the streaming
Of the pale moonlight, Nimbly (lancing in its glee, For a moment then to flee
Within the shades of night.
As now asunder forth we wander
From State's mystic vales; Where'er we wander yet more tender With passing years will we remember
Her old and stately halls.
It matters not if be our lot
Of pleasure or of pain, Friendships firm and halcyon days And scenes agone will yet always
Fond memories remain.
Should in autumn when the lonesome,
Withered leaves lie dead, We return, 'twill be a token Of golden dreams forever broken
And ways that life has led.
Should it be when bush and tree
Are freighted deep with snow, That we return, the wintry day Will portend of locks grown grey And scenes of long ago.
Then, Grand Old State, fair be your fate,
While years unnumbered go, And may the future prosper you, And may your manly strength imbue. Nor vield to any foe.
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