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Chapter I

Two Poems CLASS DAY POEM THE PURPLE HILLS

By HENRY RUTGERS CONGER WILLIAMSTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS PRINTED FOR THE CLASS OF EIGHTEEN NINETY-NINE OF WILLIAMS COLLEGE MCMXXI

HENRY RUTGERS CONGER, Poet of the Class of Eighteen Ninety-Nine of Williams College, died at his home in Fanwood, New Jersey, on Friday the eighteenth of June, Nineteen Hundred and Twenty, while his Class was holding its Reunion in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

These two poems, written by him while an undergraduate in Williams College, are now printed by his Class as a loving tribute to his memory.

CLASS DAY POEM

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Williamstown, June 20, 1899.

THE PURPLE HILLS

Air—“Annie Lisle”

Williamstown, 1898.

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