New-York tribune., 1878-06-07
PHILLIPS AOADEMY.
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.

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POEM BY DR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, ADDRESS
Ry TuE Rrv. DIR. ALEXANDER MKENZIE. AM
SPEECHES BY PRESIDENTS or FIVE COLLEGES.
BosroN, Jure 6.-The one hundredth ami
ver.ary Of Philips Academy at AHdoyeT, Mass wa'
celebrated to-day. An immense cOncOurse witnessed
the exerclseF the prominent features OF when we're
poen by Oliver Wendell Holmes and an address by tho
Rev. Alexander McKend-.
Tlis afternoon banquet is being given, at which
speeebes areasgued to Governor Rce the presidents
of Yale Harvard. Amherst, Dartmouth ana Brown UNI
versities. and many other prominent men,
Following is the conclusion Of Or. Holiness poem;
Time works strange maryels; since trod tho green
Aud swung the gates what wonders nave seen!
But come whaC wili-the SKY ITSELF may Iall-
As things OF course the boy accepts then ~.
The prophets cBariOI. drawn by siceds OF flame,
For daily use our travelling millions elalm
The face we love "a sunbeam makes our own;
No more the surgeon hear's tue sufferers groani
Wbat rn,gTit histories wrapped in darkness lay
Til ,' s'nYfine scbiemann barred them TO the day
Your Richeeu says aud says It well, my lord,
The pen is (sOmrtimes) mI2 hitter Than the sword
Great Is the gOOsequlll, say we al. AIncDI
Sometimes the spade Is mlghticr Than the pen
n shows where Babel's terraccd walls were raised,
The slabs that acked wren himrOds palace biazed
Uuearths MYcene, rediscoVcTs ROY
Calmly he listens, that immortal BOY.
A new Promeiheus tips our wands with fire,
A mightier Ofpheus strains the Whispering Mre'
And hold Tie hour a. Joshua stayed the sum-
50 swift, in truth We hardly ind place
Still a new miracle each ycar supplies,
sec M his work the chemist Of the skies,
VINO questions Sirius In his tortured rays
And steals the secret OF The solar blaze
Hush! while the wndow-ratuing bugies play
The nations hundred miles away!
Tbat wicked phOnOgrapbl harkl hOw IL swcars!
Turn IL again aud make It say It's prayers
And was 10 true, then, what The story SAID
OF OfOxioid's friar and his Drazen headf
While wondering science stands, herself perplexed
At each days miracle, and asks "whai neNJF
The Immortal boy, the coming her OF all,
sprlngs frotn his desk % " urge the lying ball."
Ceaves with his bending oar the CLASSY waves
Tie same bright creature in these naunts of ours
That Eton shadOWod with her antique t0WeTa
BoyI Where is hel the lOng-mbed youtn inquiries.
Whom his rOugI chin with manly prlde inspires
An when the ruddy C1eek no longer glOWh,
Wien fbe bright baIr is white as Winter SHOWS,
When the dim eye has lost It's lambent fame,
Sweet 70 his ear viii be his scnoolb0y nameI
Nor think the difference mighty as u seems
Between ie's morning and It's evening dfeamsj
Fonrseore like twenty, has it, tasks and toys;
In earlh's wide schOOhOuse all are giIls ana DOyB'
Brothers, forgive my wayward fancy. VINO
Too light my strain for listeners such AS these.
Whom graver thoughts and sOberer speech shall please
Is he not here whose breath OF 9CJ song
Has raised the dOwncast eyes Of faith 50 lOngf
Are they not here, the strangers IN your gates,
For whom the wear1ed ear impatient waits
me Argebrained scholars whom their tolls release,
Tine banncred heralds OF the Prince OF Peace
e,ch eeos inc gentle friend whose youth unbalanced
In wears long past our student-beDc1es calmedi
Whose name illumined on the sacred page.
Lives In the labOrs OF MS rper age;
such be whose record Times destroying mhrch
Leaves uneffaced on Zion's springing arch:
Not 10 the scanty phrase OF measured song,
Cramped In It's letters, names ike ID, .nese % Deongi
Their praise leave 10 sWeetcr lips thuh Ihlile
Home OF our sires, where learning $ temple rose
While yet they struggled with tnelr banOed iOeb,
As in the West thy centurys sun descends,
One parting CLEAN its dying radiance lehds'
Darker and deeper though the shadows iall
From the gray towers ON Doubling Castles WALL
Though Pope and Pagan re-array their hosts
And her new aTmor youthful science boasts,
Tiutb for whose altar rose this holy shrine,
shall hy for refuge 20 these bowers OF thine;
No mat suaIl chain her with lts rusted vow.
No Jews phylactery bind ner Christian brow,
Bnt Faith shall smile 10 fnd her sister Tree
And nobler manhood draw its life from thee.
long as the arcbing ekles above thee spread
"A ON thy groves the dews Of heaven are shed.
Win currents widening still from year 20 year,
Aud de- uening channels caliDs untrOubled, clear,
FLOW IND twin HfreaIDlets from thy sacred hill
PielIas fOunt and Sl0an's shadedrilII