Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-13

S'hs Scu tuS SoN6S VI your CulIu =
When the, future seemed boundless ana
grand.
You will tell me youths dreaming IS
AS confronting life's duties you stand. ="
As an echo repeats some sweet story,
The Cascade" in its frolicsome glee'
Rlppled over the rocks the old summons:
am waiting. come quickly to me-
And the hills said: Return to our shelter,
As the granite we hold in our bosoms
And the sun that shines down from
above"
Then from steeple TO steeple the church
Talked together one day and they said:
Let us call the old friends and it may be
That their footsteps will hither be led.
We have rung for their ears ali the
changes
OF the joys and the sorrows of lifc''-
Come away. come away! will they
Come and rest from carth's struggles
and Strife
Then there rose strange mingling of
20 come back, we have missed you so
long,
And not once are you ever forgotten, :.
Mid the little ones laughter and song.
Twas the calling of many a school room,
Long deserted by some who have found
That their lives, like the school-days OF
childhood.
Now the people said: Come and delay
not,
For we anxiously watch your return,
And in token of fellowship lasting
Do our altar-tires cheerily burn.
Sweetest roses in summertime blooming
Fairest lilies of delicate hue
In their fragrance breathe out the glad
welcome
That our hearthstone has waiting foI
you
Thus it was that the mother sent bidding
TO the ones she had cherished of old,
And the wings of the wind swiftly bore i
Till the story Of longing was told
Thus it WAS that the arms that hao
Graded
Many children in tenderest care;
All eXpcctant reached out TO enioiu the'i
With the JOY that none other can share
And what answer came back through tho
distance,
Many voices. as one, raise chorus
That Il volume of tenderness tclis:
I'VE are coming, for dear are the nome
To the Sons and the Daughters wh'
And most sweet are the mem'rles tina
finger .
OF our happy old Hallowell home"
You are come, and right royal the wei
That we give you while truly we pray
ON your hearts may fall sweet bencdlc
In the Joys of this midsummer day:
Pleasant milestone we pass on ne
All ilIuminci with earth's trucs; love.
While We look Tor the meeting ans
greeting
In the blessed reunion above.
At the close of the poem sergeant
of the Boys Brigade entered the hal
and handed telegram to Adj. Gen
| Richards. who was seated in the Tor
ward part of the hall. The genera
| hastily read the missive and handed
the same to Mayor Stafford. The as
! semblage was hushcd and eNpectan
| and applauded when the announcement
was made that His Excellency GOV
| Powers would soon arrive. Al aoou
4 o'clock. the Governor appeared, &C
companied by Gen. Richards. VINO wen
| out to meet him and Col. Glidden. The
! applause was deafening. They were
escorted to seats on the stage and the
exercises continued.
Prof. Charles +. richardson adj
dress on Civic Virtue" was listened u
with rapt attention. and to those who
| know the distinguished professor. 1T Is
| enough to say that it was an utteranct
| worthy of his scholarly fame. He ha:
| been heard here before within recen
wears but never by more appreciat1V'
| hearers. He read from notes. but be
ing unconfincd spoke eXtemporaneous
ly, with rare gift of ready eloquence
| An abstract of his address follows: