Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-21
Centennial Ode.


When youth o Aim. Mater ne threshold stood.
And turned with longing eyes
To life's giant enterprise,
Lightly Wv we a said fi Sie"
To these dear scenes, and down yon narrow street,
That DER life's his hway streams along:
Lightly we went hope in the van,
While life-hk music ran
Melodiously through heart and brain,
Each step victory, each IN ment gain:
Lightly we went but laden now
Return Re IN. with deeper leye, blown to full flower
And on this day Of days,
Lay at thy feet the tribute OF our praise
As dew wept down on leaf and flower, when morn
Grows tremulous within the east scarce born,
ssy afep the 5sAnt
Q1a ssssSs ny 9ys desire
From di.t.n. lands where II II .of, SPLENDID beam.
The southern cross through silent deeps of air,
channs h sast
From lands where winter icy banners fare
From solitudes beneath the polar star;
From lands where mornings earliest rays unbar
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While slumbering cities into being start
And barter roars within the busy mart;
From lands where boundless prairie rolls along
To eondsss Sess sna Paess deep leap
Thy sons assemble here
10 Rrett tnee III tiny huDUfedtn year
OF sweet maternity, and lay aside,
For this 6Slet hour, the bnckler and the spear.
The truce Of God, remembering Christ had died.
From all lfe's walks We come, in peace arrayed,
With ceaseless hum, and from the myriad ways
OF lay, whose wide prodtecting sgis stays
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The nations wisdom guides the bark Of state.
of Low.
Leads fallen nature up TO perfect love
Lift the gisd voice in jubiiation's song
Salute thee but where heavens starry bow
Invisible. Slest spirits once among y @ 'A'0ns
Thy sons in flesh, take up the glad refrain
That falls 6enediction on thy head
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Flash ON thy brow spiritual crown,
diads% Of lxh ,s Whose sRlendsos rays
When virgin Liberty yet stood
Within the dawn Of maidenhood
The home Of truth and learning,s calm retreat
FS 1s Ssa sd sse ben.
OF rolling drum in loud alarW
Sounding the patriots call toarm
Against the tyrant foe,
Win 4srty W SISoa .ss = t he fearful .hro
Came the man Of peace, who bore
Where sweet Cob onguroton's waters pour,
And planted there the sacred tree;
And this was he
OF that same faith and race
With him, who taking up the bloodless steel.
To make the nations woe veal
Alone Of all the signers dared trace.
Not only his heroic name, but native place.
And with the dauntless front of Freedoms son.
Wrote. Carroll of Carrollton."
Rejoice in thy noble stem
And drm foundations wrought
MaS p TaSn i f sb we're ssm taught
OF freedom bought
BY patriot steel in patriot hands,
Against . narrow tyrant's slavish bands.
Around thy cradle blew the trumpet blast
OF victory, when liberty at last r
Burst the chains that held her bound
And all the land leaped ut the glorious sound
And nation sprnng to life
From the dragons Jaws Of strife.
Strong imbed and beautiful In power
Through mighty wrestling In that heavy hour
Around thy cradle redolent
Breashed the fresh fragrance Of the sprinr
Win thine own blood. and sent
Thy pulses dancing 10 the swing
Of music born of hope In prophecy
OF al tbs glory yet TO be!
century has rolled its solemn tide
Alone the nstions path. and BY thy walls
The generations ebbed and died
Fallen In the waste of time - falls
fon uver 70 the distant ses- II
And iol the promise Of thine tnfancys