“ Σύν, ἑταίρα, δεῖ σε μέλπειν.”—Ανακ. "Then roll the song in waves along, While the hours are bright before us, NEW HAVEN: PUBLISHED BY THOMAS H. PEASE. PRINTED BY J. H. BENHAM, 1855. 1855 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by N. W. T. ROOT and J. K. LOMBARD, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. M Y 2 R$ 1855 IN offering this little collection of College Poetry to the courtesy of the public, a few words of explanation are due alike to the reader and to the compilers. In the first place, nothing like completeness was intended or attainable within such narrow limits. Specimens only, have been selected from each of the various classes of occasional songs, and arranged under their respective heads, generally in the order of the times when they were written. In making this selection we have been governed partly by poetic merit, but more by the associations connected with various pieces inserted, in the minds of the present generation of Yalensians. This latter reason will account for the appearance of several effusions of a character altogether ephemeral, and perhaps of somewhat inferior literary merit. Almost every student has a loose collection of Songs which he has laid up from time to time, and which he values as mementoes which will hereafter bring his Alma Mater and all her cherished customs vividly to mind. But detached papers are not a very secure possession, and besides, there are often songs which it is difficult for all to obtain. In this publication we have endeavored to present all the old, popular stand bys,' some pieces of a more occasional character, and a few new ones, in a form in which they can easily be preserved by themselves, or bound in with the "Lit." It is due to the authors of the pieces to state that many of them were written in very great haste, upon the excitement of the moment, and are introduced here unaltered, because alterations in such productions are rarely improvements. There are a few songs which have acquired a good deal of popularity among students which are not inserted in this collection,-but they are not original here, we believe, and are hardly of a nature to reflect honor upon our Institution. We wish it understood that those we publish, with but one or two exceptions, and those noted, were written by members of this College The figures attached to the names, denote, of course, the year of graduation. Our thanks are due to Mr. Herrick, the accommodating Librarian, as well as to several of our fellow students, for assistance in our researches. Should the popular sentiment call for a work of greater completeness, there is abundance of material with which to satisfy the want. If this little publication meets with the favor which the interest already manifested in it leads us to anticipate, it is quite possible that at some not very distant day we may attempt something more extended in its nature, more permanent in character, and more worthy of YALE. THE COMPILERS. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. A demand having arisen for a second edition of this collection, the Compilers have selected some dozen new songs from the many which have come out since the publication of the first edition, and have omitted as many which have become stale. They are gratified to find themselves sustained in their original opinion that such a publication would meet the approbation of the College world, and hope that abler, though not more willing, hands than theirs will continue to preserve these memorials of College pleasures, which may be sung with mild enthusiasm, "When in after years we're harbored, With an infant on our larboard Knee, and sitting at our starboard Side, a wife." |