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Phi Beta Kappa Ode / Harvard University / June 30, 1910
All day long in the city's canyon-street, / With its populous cliffs alive on either side, / I saw a river of marching men like a tide / Flowing after the flag: and the rhythmic beat / Of the drums, and the bugles' resonant blare / Metred the tramp, tramp, tramp of a myriad feet, / While the red-white-and-blue was fluttering everywhere, / And the heart of the crowd kept time to a martial air: / O brave flag, O bright flag, O flag to lead the free!