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POEMS.
Here Xenophon's delightful maze
Allures the philologic mind,
Or Plato's facile, honeyed phrase
Ambitious youth their model find;
While Homer's bold hexameters,
And Virgil's matchless epic lines,
To Poesy's wild worshipers
Are sacred as their altar-shrines.
Allures the philologic mind,
Or Plato's facile, honeyed phrase
Ambitious youth their model find;
While Homer's bold hexameters,
And Virgil's matchless epic lines,
To Poesy's wild worshipers
Are sacred as their altar-shrines.
Thy bounds encircle forum-ground
Where embryonic Presidents
The key to statesmanship have found,
Or latent gift of eloquence;
While, promised guerdon of his dreams,
More radiant than kingly crown,
To many a bright aspirant, seems
The ermined robe, or surplice-gown.
Where embryonic Presidents
The key to statesmanship have found,
Or latent gift of eloquence;
While, promised guerdon of his dreams,
More radiant than kingly crown,
To many a bright aspirant, seems
The ermined robe, or surplice-gown.
Proud alma mater thou hast been
Of scores of earth's successful sons
Who, in life's broad arena, win
The plaudits of less favored ones;
Who toy with fame, and are beset
By honor and prosperity—
But never, never quite forget
Their love and reverence for thee.
Of scores of earth's successful sons
Who, in life's broad arena, win
The plaudits of less favored ones;
Who toy with fame, and are beset
By honor and prosperity—
But never, never quite forget
Their love and reverence for thee.
