Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-06-15
1 SONG FoR our ALMA MAIEl
y emma iisatiastea Mason.

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The Journal Is glad to publish the
beautiful verses read. this week, at the
notable gathering Of the alumnae a
Kent's Hill. by. Augustus talented writ
er. Emma Huntington Mason. a gradu
ate Of the. Woman's College in 1866
Aa'd en-. with white robes. daintily trail
/ Whence are you coming with music
H. and song?
Down through the shadow-aisles mystic
Down through the corridors silent SC
| ?, long?
We are thy children! With gifts thou
Beloved Alma Mater. we come from
Back from the ways into which thou has.
sent US:
Bless and receive US. thy daughters We
are!
The eyes Of the world. our fair vision
scOrning-
Behold US as matrons grown sombre
But memory pictures US still at the
dawninE
/ OF girihood exultant at coming Of day.
And who is the first mid the far-away
faces?
First and alone in the long. joyous line
Brilliant and gifted with LIES sweetest
Classic q feature. with deep eyes
She is sa' thy eldest. o Mother proud-heart-
Open s,,. Thy arms to thy dear honored
Crowned med. wit, with thy love as in years long
First Of the jewels to shine on thy
breast.
And these, are the Seniors SO stately and
solemn Il
who claimed thy proud name in days
They noiselessly pass from column to COL
umn:
They wear on their bosoms the bios
SONS OF yore.
They kneel at thy feet. with hearts still
Through joy and through sorrow,
through smiles and through tears:
With friendship unbroken: with loyalty
plighted
Back in ,ne hallowing mists of the
years.
The joyous professional deepens and
lengthens;
bcquest:
The width OF a continent parts. but it
strengthens
A love that is wide as the East from
the West.
We come from the homes where hearth
fires are lighted;
Where glad eyes Of children with laugh .
ter are bright;
From the shrines where our sons in honor
Beneath the white banner Oh God and
the right.
We come from the halle of science and
Where scattered anew are the harvests
Of grain:
From the fields of the world. for thy
mother-ar yearning.
Toiler. with hand. and with heart. and
with brain. ,
We are thy children. thy woods and thy
Beckon and cal, as we pass on our way:
We come 10 salute the New Century's
Hail. and salute you. Kent's Hill Of to-
day! -
o dear life Of girihood! we know the
Never were mountains. fairer than these
Ever were des SO golden with glory:
Never such lakes were kissed by the
breeze.
Never were Junes SO girded with splen-
Never the apple-bloom blossomed so
Never the light Of the stars SO tender;
Never. but once. the day 80 rare
When long wears have passed. We shall
call back the vision
Just as II gladdens our dim eyes today:
Like a goddess of old. from the regions
Our fair Alma Mater abideth for aye
Wrought on her mantle. the gold Grecian
border:
Her sun-iance still holding the spheres in
their order:
Her feet on the wisdom Of ages at rest.
Nor vet shall our prayers for her glory
Till the Hi Of on, love is enshrined
with a fame.
Whose courts colonnaded ana corridofs
Shall welcome within them. the daueh-
: tiers of Maine.
Till the long. slanting tights Of her ivy
Shall shine through the paths of new
where garIanded maidens, drift by with
Aut dream in their rapture. and sing as
they dream.
TIL grandly and surely fulfilled Is the
mission q. ..
whose purposes never shall waver nor
TIL the world shall behold, In her fullest
The coiIese-bred woDan.-the Woman
And to thee. o reverend and beloved AL
The fame OF q century new shall be-
We bring thee today our Apassionata,-
The love of our hearts. on the breath OF