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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567216" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Oglethorpe</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">An Ode to be read on the laying of the foundation <br>stone of the new Oglethorpe University,<br>January, 1915, at Atlanta,<br>Georgia<br>I<br>AS when with oldtime passion for this Land<br>Here once she stood, and in her pride, sent forth<br>Workmen on every hand,<br>Sowing the seed of knowledge South and North,<br>More gracious now than ever, let her rise,<br>The splendor of a new dawn in her eyes;<br>Grave, youngest sister of that company,<br>That smiling wear<br>Laurel and pine<br>And wild magnolias in their flowing hair;<br>The sisters Academe,<br>With thoughts divine,<br>Standing with eyes a-dream,<br>Gazing beyond the world, into the sea,<br>Where lie the Islands of Infinity.<br>II<br>Now in these stormy days of stress and strain,<br>When Gospel seems in vain,<br>And Christianity a dream we've lost,<br>That once we made our boast;<br>Now when all life is brought<br>Face to grim face with naught,<br>And a condition speaking, trumpet-lipped,<br>Of works material, leaving Beauty out<br>Of God's economy; while, horror-dipped, <br>Lies our buried faith, full near to perish,<br>'Mid the high things we cherish,<br>In these tempestuous days when, to and fro<br>The serpent, Evil, goes and strews his way<br>With dragon's teeth that play<br>Their part as once they did in Jason's day;<br>And War, with menace loud,<br>And footsteps, metal-slow,<br>And eyes a crimson hot,<br>Is seen, against the Heaven a burning blot<br>Of blood and tears and woe:<br>Now when no mortal living seems to know<br>Whither to turn for hope, we turn to thee,<br>And such as thou art, asking 'What's to be?'<br>And that thou point the path<br>Above Earth's hate and wrath,<br>And Madness, stalking with his torch aglow<br>Amid the ruins of the Nations slow<br>Crumbling to ashes with Old Empire there<br>In Europe's tiger lair.<br>III<br>A temple may'st thou be,<br>A temple by the everlasting sea, <br>For the high goddess, Ideality, <br>Set like a star,<br>Above the peaks of dark reality:<br>Shining afar <br>Above the deeds of War, <br>Within the shrine of Love, whose face men mar <br>With Militarism, <br>That is the prism <br>Through which they gaze with eyes obscured of Greed, <br>At the white light of God's Eternity,<br>The comfort of the world, the soul's great need, <br>That beacons Earth indeed,<br>Breaking its light intense<br>With turmoil and suspense <br>And failing human Sense. <br>IV<br>From thee a higher Creed<br>Shall be evolved.<br>The broken lights resolved <br>Into one light again, of glorious light,<br>Between us and the Everlasting, that is God.—<br>The all-confusing fragments, that are night,<br>Lift up thy rod<br>Of knowledge and from Truth's eyeballs strip<br>The darkness, and in armor of the Right,<br>Bear high the standard of imperishable light!<br>Cry out, 'Awake! — I slept awhile! — Awake!<br>Again I take<br>My burden up of Truth for Jesus' sake,<br>And stand for what he stood for, Peace and Thought,<br>And all that's Beauty-wrought<br>Through doubt and dread and ache,<br>By which the world to good at last is brought!'<br>V<br>No more with silence burdened, when the Land<br>Was stricken by the hand<br>Of war, she rises, and assumes her stand<br>For the Enduring; setting firm her feet<br>On what is blind and brute: <br>Still holding fast<br>With honor to the past,<br>Speaking a trumpet word,<br>Which shall be heard<br>As an authority, no longer mute. <br>VI<br>Again, yea, she shall stand<br>For what Truth means to Man<br>For science and for Art and all that can<br>Make life superior to the things that weight<br>The soul down, things of hate<br>Instead of love, for which the world was planned;<br>May she demand<br>Faith and inspire it; Song to lead her way<br>Above the crags of Wrong<br>Into the broader day;<br>And may she stand<br>For poets still; poets that now the Land<br>Needs as it never needed; such an one<br>As he, large Nature's Son<br>Lanier, who with firm hand<br>Held up her magic wand<br>Directing deep in music such as none<br>Has ever heard<br>Such music as a bird<br>Gives of its soul, when dying,<br>And unconscious if it's heard.<br>VII<br>So let her rise, mother of greatness still,<br>Above all temporal ill;<br>Invested with all old nobility,<br>Teaching the South decision, self control<br>And strength of mind and soul;<br>Achieving ends that shall embrace the whole<br>Through deeds of heart and mind;<br>And thereby bind<br>Its effort to an end<br>And reach its goal. <br>VIII<br>So shall she win<br>A wrestler with sin,<br>Supremely to a place above the years,<br>And help men rise<br>To what is wise<br>And true beyond their mortal finite scan —<br>The purblind gaze of man;<br>Aiding with introspective eyes<br>His soul to see a higher plan<br>Of life beyond this life; above the gyves<br>Of circumstance that bind him in his place<br>Of doubt and keep away his face<br>From what alone survives;<br>And what assures<br>Immortal life to that within, that gives<br>Of its own self,<br>And through its giving, lives,<br>And evermore endures.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Madison+Julius+Cawein">Madison Julius Cawein</a><div class=q>
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