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O Statesmen who devise and plot / To keep the White above the Black, / Who tremble when your bolt is shot / Lest love and loyalty grow slack, / There's not a deed of craftsmanship, / There's not a thing Red Tape can do, / Shall knit the Hindoo with the Celt / As much as this -- the Cambridge Blue!
No million acres of Despatch, / No tanks of governmental ink, / Can force a native not to watch / For days when England's star may sink. / Build factories to weave the tape, / Make tables for the rice and dew -- / Do all your best, and you shall miss / The binding force of Cambridge Blue!