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THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT SERVICE FLAG - 1517 STARS, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It surely does you good
Last Line: Will guard your honor still.
Subject(s): Education; Flags - United States; Schools; Universities & Colleges; Vermont; American Flag; Students


IT surely does you good
When walking up "The Hill,"
To see five hundred stars
Beclustered on "The Mill;"
It shows the boys are true
To great traditions still.

It rather mists your eyes,
But makes your heart rejoice,
To know the boys have heard
The Macedonian voice,
And, like their loyal sires,
Have made the lofty choice.

To hold the Hunnish hosts,
To rescue stranger lands,
To loosen millions bound
By Prussian bars and bands,
Are acts like those that fall
With joy from heavenly hands.

All blue those stars today
Though some will change to gold.
But be they gold or blue
No star is dim or cold,
Nor sets except to sink
Within the banner's fold.

Devotion, courage, faith,
Resolve that scorns to lag,
Are visualized to us
Upon this Service Flag—
Possessions that shall pass
No more than Mansfield's crag.

Beloved and old "Vermont"
Enseated on "The Hill:"
We cheer the stainless stars
That glorify "The Mill;"
We know your gallant sons
Will guard your honor still.





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