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MAIN STREET AND OTHER POEMS

THE NEW SCHOOL (continued) And every name on that radiant list will be the name of a friend,

A name that shall through the centuries in grateful prayers be said.

And there will be ghosts in the old school, brave ghosts with laughing eyes,

On the field with a ghostly cricket-bat, by the stream with a ghostly rod;

They will touch the hearts of the living with a flame that sanctifies,

A flame that they took with strong young hands from the altar-fires of God. [ 65 ]