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I SAW them beautiful, in fair array upon Commencement Day; / Lissome and lovely, radiant and sweet / As cultured roses, brought to their estate / By careful training. Finished and complete / (As teachers calculate).
They passed in maiden grace along the aisle, / Leaving the chaste white sunlight of a smile / Upon the gazing throng. / Musing I thought upon their place as mothers of the race.