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BENNY HAVENS.

1. Come, classmates. gather round us now, And swell our joy-ous song; Let care be banished

from each brow, While time speeds swift along. We're thro' the toils of Soph'more year, We've passed the Rubi

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I. The shades of night were falling fast, Upi-dee, Upida, As through an Alpine village passed

CHORUS.

Upi-dee- i - da!

CHORUS.

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A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device,

ritard.

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U-pi-dee- i dee-i- da, U-pi-dee, U- pi - da, U - pi-dee - i, dee -i, da, U- pi-dee - i - da!

2 His brow was sad; his eye beneath Flashed like a faulchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung

The accents of that unknown tongue,
Upideei, &c.

3 "O stay," the maiden said, "and rest
Thy weary head upon this breast!"
A tear stood in his bright blue eye,
But still he answered with a sigh
Upideei, &c.

4 At break of day, as heavenward
The pious monks of Saint Bernard
Uttered the oft repeated prayer,

A voice cried through the startled air,
Upideei, &c.

5 A traveller, by the faithful bound,
Half buried in the snow was found,
Still grasping in his hand of ice
That banner with the strange device,
Upideei, &c.

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