ADDED FOR THE ALUMNI MEETING, JUNE 29,

So the gray Boatswain of‘ Twenty-nine

Piped to “The Boys” as they crossed the line;

Round the cabin sat thirty guests,

Babes of the nurse with a thousand breasts.

There were the judges, grave and grand,

Flanked by the priests on either hand;

There was the lord of wealth untold,

And the dear good fellow in broadcloth old.

Thirty men, from twenty towns,

Sires and grandsires with silvered crowns,—

Thirty school-boys all in a row,—

Bens and Georges and Bill and Joe.

In thirty goblets the wine was poured,

But threescore gathered around the board,—

For lo! at the side of every chair

A shadow hovered — we all were there!