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I. LEE O. HARRIS
Schoolmaster and Songmaster! Memory / Enshrines thee with an equal love, for thy / Duality of gifts,-thy pure and high / Endowments-Learning rare, and Poesy. / These were as mutual handmaids, serving thee, / Throughout all seasons of the years gone by, / With all enduring joys 'twixt earth and sky- / In turn shared nobly with thy friends and me. / Thus is it that thy clear song, ringing on, / Is endless inspiration, fresh and free / As the old Mays at verge of June sunshine; / And musical as then, at dewy dawn, / The robin hailed us, and all twinklingly / Our one path wandered under wood and vine.