438 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE 



Once in the pleasant summer tiile, a balmy eve in June, 

 Prof. Abbot brouRht liis 1)onn.v bride; we sang for tliem ti tune. 

 'Twas "Talve her but be faithful still." We sang it sweet and low 

 Amid the drooping evergreens, some forty years ago. 



Forty years ago: Forty years ago: 

 How well we k)ved and honored him 'most forty j'ears ago. 



And then came on the anxious days whon all Ihe air was rife. 

 With rumors of the Soutliern craze, wliich sought tlie nation's life; 

 When Lincoln ran for president and Seward spoke in town, 

 We organized a Lincoln club and all of us went down. 



Forty years ago: Forty years ago: 

 We nearly all wore Lincoln men some forty years ago. 



We went in farmer's uniform, to stand up for tlie law. 

 In wampus blue and overalls and jaunty hats of straw, 

 On wagon racks and horses backs, or any way to go, 

 The day that we heard Seward speak 'most forty years ago. 



Forty years ago: Forty years ago: 

 He shook our hands and we felt grand 'most forty years ago. 



Then came the weary evil days of civil war and strife. 



And some of us went marching out to save the nation's life, 



And .some came back with honors crowned, and some were stricken low; 



They've lain at rest in Southern ground since fort.y years ago. 



Forty years ago: Forty years ago: 

 We've sung for them a requiem, since forty years ago. 



And now, dear chum, we're here again upon tlie same old ground, 

 But nothing seems the .same to us except the bell's sweet sound. 

 We came upon a ti'olley car. ten minutes ride or so. 

 It is not like the walk we took some forty years ago. 



Forty year? ago: Forty years ago: 

 It took an hour to walk from town some forty years ago. 



New buildings stand on every side, new faces all around 

 The Co-ed beats the Fern. Sem. girl we used to meet in town. 

 I cannot find the boarding hall; I need some one to show 

 ^fe Avhei-e the places are I loved so. forty years ago. 



Forty years ago: Forty years ago: 

 It does not seem such change could come since forty years agd. 



I mi.ss our old time faculty. Not one of them is left. 

 Of all the men wlio taught us then, I feel like one bereft; 

 For some are sped aiid some are dead; there's little left to show 

 Of all we loved and cherished here some forty years ago. 



Forty years ago: Forty years ago: 

 It seems just now as if it was a hundred years ago. 



But through all changes tliat have passed and all that yet may come 

 Our hearts still fondly turn at last to our old College home. 

 She is our joy, our hope, our pride, no other place below 

 Can warm our hearts as she has done since forty years ago. 



Forty years ago: Forty years ago: 

 Our hopes and prayers have been for her since forty .years ago. 



