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The Close Of The Session

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The Session's over.    We must say farewell          To these east winds and to this eastern sea,          For summer comes, with swallow and with bee,     With many a flower and many a golfing swell.     No more the horribly discordant bell          Shall startle slumber; and all men agree          That whatsoever other things may be     A cause of sorrow, this at least is well.     The class-room shall not open wide its doors,          Or if it does, such opening will be vain;                 The gown shall hang unused upon a nail;     South Street shall know us not; we'll wipe the Scores          From our remembrance; as for Mutto's Lane,                 Yea, even the memory of this shall fail.

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"The Session's over.    We must say farewell..."

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