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  "venue": "The Harvard Advocate, vol. 89, no. 8, p. 100 (24 June 1910)",
  "note": "Cited from John Hayward's Poems Written in Early Youth (1967) and Donald Gallup's T. S. Eliot: A Bibliography (revised edition, 1969). Written and recited for the commencement of Harvard's class of 1910, for which Eliot was class Odist. A different poem from the “Ode” of Ara Vos Prec (1920), which is a separate record here.",
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    "text": "For the hour that is left us Fair Harvard, with thee,",
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   {
    "text": "Ere we face the importunate years,",
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    "text": "In thy shadow we wait, while thy presence dispels",
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    "text": "Our vain hesitations and fears.",
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    "text": "And we turn as thy sons ever turn, in the strength",
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    "text": "Of the hopes that thy blessings bestow,",
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    "text": "From the hopes and ambitions that sprang at thy feet",
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    "text": "Yet for all of these years that to-morrow has lost",
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    "text": "We are still the less able to grieve,",
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    "text": "With so much that of Harvard we carry away",
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    "text": "In the place of the life that we leave.",
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    "text": "And only the years that efface and destroy",
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    "text": "Give us also the vision to see",
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    "text": "What we owe for the future, the present, and past,",
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    "text": "Fair Harvard, to thine and to thee.",
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