College Song Book: A Collection of American College Songs : with Piano-forte Accompaniment

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H. Tolman and Company, 1860 - 72 páginas
 

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Página 21 - A traveller, by the faithful hound, Half-buried in the snow was found, Still grasping in his hand of ice That banner with the strange device Excelsior ! There in the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay, And from the sky, serene and far, A voice fell, like a falling star, Excelsior ! POEMS ON SLAVERY.
Página 23 - Where, oh where are life's lilies and roses, Nursed in the golden dawn's smile? Dead as the bulrushes round little Moses, On the old banks of the Nile. Where are the Marys, and Anns, and Elizas, Loving and lovely of yore? Look in the columns of old Advertisers, — Married and dead by the score.
Página 21 - Try not the pass!" the old man said; "Dark lowers the tempest overhead, The roaring torrent is deep and wide!" And loud that clarion voice replied, Excelsior ! "O stay," the maiden said, "and rest Thy weary head upon this breast!
Página 20 - THE shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior...
Página 16 - Far abroad the tidings dealing, Now the hour of prayer is near. To the pious Sons of Harvard, Starting from the land of Nod, Loudly comes the rousing summons, Let us run and worship God. " 'T is the hour for deep contrition, 'T is the hour for peaceful thought, T is the hour to win the blessing In the early stillness sought; Kneeling in the quiet chamber, On the deck, or on the sod, In the still and early morning, 'T is the hour to worship God. " But don't you stop to pray in secret, No time for...
Página 61 - Summon our band from the prairie land, From the granite hills, dark frowning, From the lakelet blue, and the black bayou, From the snows our pine peaks crowning ; And pour the song in joy along, For the hours are bright before us, And grand and hale are the...
Página 6 - 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...
Página 61 - And high and hale arc the spires of Yale, Like guardians, towering o'er us. " Dream of the days when the rainbow rays Of Hope on our hearts fell lightly, And each fair hour some cheerful flower In our pathway blossomed brightly ; And pour the song in joy along, Ere the moments fly before us, While portly and hale the sires of Yale Are kindly gazing o'er us. " Linger again in memory's glen, 'Mid the tendrilled vines of feeling.
Página 6 - 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, Through thy precincts have musingly trod, As they girded their spirits, or deepened the streams That make glad the fair City of God.
Página 13 - For we think it is but right, sir, On Wednesday and Saturday night, sir, To get most gloriously tight, sir, To drive dull care away, To drive dull care away; To drive dull care away. It's a way we have at old Harvard, &c.

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