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.

© Robert Fuller Murray