Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1901-10-31

The free air soreordains him to be free;
Their stern persistency
The ages to his resolute spirit lend
Sc rose cur seademe since that far day
When reverently the grave forefathers came
II council By the shoal ancestral bay.
To speak the word. fo pray.
To found the enduring shrine without naue.
We. a, the witchery of whose golden wand
New eloisters rise TO spiendor IN night
Fine here ygzar model! Here the barriers stand
That not made TO hand,
That have the puiszance Time confers Alright
Bern with the exit of thar iron age
When Nova Anglia 10 New England grew,
Earnings res child put Up hermitage.
Whereof no cody mage
As from a mount the boundaries foreknev.
No oracle betokened the obscure
Grim years encounrering which the elders bowed.
Yet knew not faiutness nor discontinue.
But set the buttress sure
That should upstay these tabernaeles proud
These fa.es that bred their patriot TO vie
In steadfastness. erect OF thought TO live.
Or when the country babe undauntedly
Without lament to die
Save that he had but young life to give
Twice. thrice. and yet again that sovereign call
Rang net in vain. nor from this anelsnt grove
Hath ceased TO broaden. the days befall.
The famed professional
OF the minds workpen who to greatness move
No feebling she that reared them. no forlorn
And wrinkIed mother lingering in the gray;
Fadeless she smiles to see her shield npboFne;
II i her morn, her morn!
The past but twilight ushering in her day.
Strong mother. thou who from the doorways old
on housed anew in beauty renovate,
Hasi spread thine heritage hundredfold.
Hast wrought 10 thy mold
Whether the bread Of ease toll We ate;
Thou who hast made thy coequal ALL
The least of thy progeny peer
Wearing for worth, not birth, his coronal;
The Waterman thy wall
Wax proud this sundawn Of thy cyclic year!
The lusters of a new won armament,
Spawned from the height thine upmost turrets
crown,
Relume the course wherein thy thoughts are
bent,
whereto the words sent
That bid thy children pass the lineage down.
Ere yet that rainbowed dome thou seest complete.
Mankind, be sure, shall earth more nobly shares
No churl his shall unduly mete.
And where set thy feet
Life shall be counted lordier and more fair.
Science shall yield new spells for 10 know
And bid thee consecrate TO mortal veal
All that her henchmen in thy gates bestow,
Nor lofty then nor low.
Save to his race each ministrant Is leal.
Thine be it still the undying antique speech,
The groves high thought, the wingd Hellenic
Tyre,
Unvexed Of soul thy acolytes to teach.
So shall they also reach
Their lamps and light them at a quenchless FIRE!
And WELD the trebly welded English tongue.
Their vantage by inheritance divine,
Ir,vEcible the laureled lists among
Wherein the bards have sung
Or sages deathless made the lettered line,
Till now for that sure Pentecost to come.
The globes four winds winnowing apace
Fresh harvestings OF speech, in one to sum
worlds curriculum
When east and west forgather face to face.
Thus first imbued thy coming host the clews
To broad achievement shall descry the more;
What thou hast taught them shall in statecraft
Greatly. they choose
But follow where the omens blaze before!
Even as our Platonist's exultant soul
That westward course of empire visioned far,
Now round the sheen, to Asia and the pole,
Time charts upon scroll
The empearled pathways of an orient star.
There the swart Malay's iuster league begun
Takes from hands the tables of the law
The mild Hawaiian raises to the
The folds himself had
Ere the Antilles their deliverance saw.
Times drama speeds, albeit. alas. its chief
Protagonist, augmentor of the state,
Fell as the prompter turned that unread leaf,
just when eonsummate lowered the action great:
To strong, brave hands the rule, the large intent
Have passed; nor tears a one that some far plan
REQUIRED the masters Likelihood interbIent,
To point his monument
And leave once more the likeness of q man.
But we. Yale's living multitude rebrought
From farthest outposts of the pine and palm.
We know her battlements Of iron wrought,
Her captains fearing naught,
welcome a
We know the still indissoluble chain
Wherewith the sons to the mother bound;
Nor unto any shall she call in vain
Who in her heart have lain
And trod the memoried precinct of her ground.
God dover her endowering her brood
With knowledge, beauty, yalor, from her breast
Ingathering from the peopled town. the wood,
The island solitude,
The lands most loyal and its manfullestl
Coo keep heri Yea, that Soul her soul endue,
That Spirit of the interstellar void.
That mightiar Presence than the fathers knew,
The source Of light where through
Heavens planets shine in Joy and strength dc.
ployed-
That Power-even that which doth impart a
share
And semblance Of divinity to our kind
Hold thee, Gear mother. here and everywhere,
Thee and thy sons in care
Through centuries yet still loftier use to find,
uEOPOuD'S REPARTEE.