The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-07-03


Masters, of erudition, chosen slTS .. -
Who taste all fruits on wisdom's tree that
After ais said. what do we need to knewi
knowledge is power. What knowledge Power
To do, or not TO dol To have. or mott
Shall learning mako our hearts or pockets
Bring things, or teach us how to go Without
Prompt us TO spare. or qualify TO, spendf
Is 1t a means. or shall 1t DO an endf
Al day tho Hindoo sits and contemplates
His navel. Earth spins onward while he waits.
No loss OF time his brooding hope concerns;
His concentrated thought serves all his turns
His food, the least that soul and BODY joins;
His raiment, but the clout about his loins.
To think is all he asks; indeed. It's more
He only seeks TO keep an open door
Whereinto may perhaps in time be turned
A consciousness transcending all things learned.
Needless of force, oblivious TO fact,
Broken of every wish or power to act,
Under his bo.tree. rapt, behold him SIT.
A patient mark for wisdom's darts to hit.
In violent, prodigious contrast. view
Our devotee who lives to put things through
Intense in aim. tremendous in attempt,
He darcs such feats as geniis might have dreamt,
Prompt from a bed too briefly kept he springs
Ho wrests from earth her treasures and her
Stays time, and grubs up distance by the roots.
Titanic in his hands resourceful play,
He fts to needs q thousand leagues away
Supplies extorted by his conjurinR brain
From mine and factory. forest, sea and plain.
As natures secrets. yielded one by ono
To searching science, meet tho, revealing sum-
His hail ~exultant gloriies the hour
That still extends the boundaries of his power.
To have. to hold. to shift. to give and take,
That is his life: we watch him and admire.
Yet envy not his toll nor RTndRe his hire.
To each his task: our civilizations need
Includes things as diverse as love and greed.
As b%rooding thought and busting energy
As abstract truth and pr mpt utility.
His right to earth is best who best can use IT.
His blrthright man must Justify OF lose IL.
This we should learn, then, and to this end
strive,
And daily meet tho debt we owe the day
That lrksome wholesome debt to, make 1t pay.
Call us utiiitarisn those who Will, .,m
Stands in the immemorial decree
That linked with labor human life shall be.
For liberty and progress hand IN hand
with pushing thrift have gone in many Q land,
And mastery Of earth and nature brinEs
Full purses foster art: letters have fiourished,
In times when even poets were well nourished:
Wealth earned, not flched, power not usurped'
On frcemen's choice. are mighty tools that.
In fitting hands. spread civilizations sway.
And speed the dawning of millenniumrs day.
Re honor, then. to him who makes tho fold
To wiser tIllage fuller harvests yield;
Who harnesses the llghtninG, ana cGns!roihH
1ndocile steel to save the fingers palms,
Who teaches us new wants, and, turn about.
Supplies these things we cannot 40 WITHOUT,
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Therell some time be enough TO go around.
To those devoted souls be honor. too.
! Who, rlfIng history's treasurc-house, forecast
The futures hopes and perils from the p9sti,
What man has been. and is. and may become,
Whence brought, and by whattrail. and whittier
Asking, they wrest its secrets from the ground.
The depth OF earth and sea, the celestial vault,
They dredge and sitt and span In an aS;aSit
| Fall ever back before Its forVenb WlRuL.
And Sol each morning riseI with q shout
Surprised at what those fellows nave touhd ouO
F TSs h fT%.H m mMsb DO o, his whG "a. i IN br.ad S Sion.;-
VINO sees in righteousness lar uoro IMAM
The prime essential to a nations health;
Whom neither ease nor quest. sublime or base.
Makes inconsiderate OF his brothers case;
GGq"d'is; viii j to learn ! SS" and see Il don: On SsTth.
4 lack Of sturdy men whose aims are high
H no SmrSing ,b tide Of plenty can sH ip yails.
Where problty falls down and, conscience fails.
Not gold nor iron. grain nor ships nor coal
This above all, then. brethren. we should know:
10Y by our growth to make our To County, gro"
In Justice. freedom. and
Our country whose we are, and In whose fate
Our stake is go immeasurably great.
Whose honor ours involv %. her lanie our iame'
Her misdirection our remorse ahd shamo'
MGnila,s guns. reyerberatins sti y bsr will.
BeleaGuered Cuba's marching hosts attest
How Hwells the love OF freedom IN her breast
Whnte'er befall, God grant her nag may ny
In sign OF righteousness and Liberty,
Ne'er At ambitions beck to be unturled
IN triumph DER tho weaklinRs Of the worlo'
Meier borne in battle save ia Inercy's cause
To spread the realm Of peace and honest lawsi
May Heaven, who gave us Strength give WIS
dom. too,
Our duty teach us. and what not TO do;
And so on force may moderation WsllZ
70 match our men Of war, our chlo,s y stAle,
That tho chief fame our Victories shall produce
May he the high renown of vlctory.s use;
COD 3e our ~ Sbms' our Gag, 9 9gio nfths WsStI