The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-27
WILLIAM wORDswoRTH's ODE TO
 nUTTY
Marie Bankhes


 ktern daughter of the voice of God! 6 Duty! If that name thou love Who art a light to guide, rod 'ro check the erring, and reprove' ferv who art victory and law When sempty terrors overawe; From vain temptations dost set Lree And cafp'st the weary strife Of fraii
 humanity!
 These are who ask not if thine eye Be on them; who, in love ana truth' Where no misgiving Is. rely Upon the genial sense of youth. ,,o.. Giad hearts. without reproach or oloe' Who do thy work. and know 1t no'; May joy be theirs while life shall last: And thou, If they should totter, teach them to stand fast! 6erene will be our days and bright And happy will our nature pc, When love is an unerring light eand joy its own security .. n.,r |This faith. even now. do entertain: Live in the spirit of this creed; Eet find that other strength, according to their need. l. loving freedom, and untried; No sport of every random gust. lYet being to myself a guide, .,. Eoo blindly have reposed my srhs.' hsard Full oft, when in my heart Was heaiu Thy timely mandate, l deferred |The task imposed. from day to day; But thee I now would serve more strictly. if l may. Through no disturbance of my soul. )Or strong compunction In me wrought t supplicate for thy control;
 in the guiettnesss Sr sreedom tires; D feel the weight of chance desires: My hopes no more must change their | long for a repose which eyer is the same.
 Stern lawgiver! yet thou dost wear |The Godhead's most benignant sraSse' (As Is the smile upon thy face: Blowers laugh before thee on their And fragrance in thy footing treads: FThou dost preserve the stars from And the most ancient heavens, through thee. are fresh and strong. To number functions, awful power! Il call thee: I myself commend Unto the guidance from this hour: Oh! let my weakness have an end! Give unto me made lowly wise, Ehy spirit of self-sacrif1ce; Crhe confidence of reason give; And, in the light of truth, thy bond
 man let me live! PROFESSOR w. N. GUTHRIE
 TALKS TO GIRLS ON
 CODE TO DUTY"
 So zealous is Professor Guthrie in spreading the gospel of the beautiful and the noble in literature that he cheerfully agreed to give a compli- mentary lecture yesterday to the pu- pils of the Girls High School and the Class of the Boys High School.
 Miss Margaret Booth. the instructor in English literature of the Girls Hign School, introduced the distinguished speaker to the audience of budding and their guests. and sur prised her hearers with the statement that the University of the South. in which Mir. Guthrie Is Professor of Gen eral Literature, was one of the only two Southern universities whose en- trance requirements put them in Class A, Vanderbilt being the other one.
 Professor Guthrie. with an enthu- siasm that is thoroughly infectious, launched into a masterly talk that was no less 8 sermon in its ethical im- portance than a lecture upon 8 poets theme. He chose as the author for con- William Wordsworth. and of that poets work he selected the "Ode to Duty" for elucidation.
 So charged with energy are his thoughts, so intimate his knowledge of the most delicate shades of mean Ing in the productions. So happy is he In choosing apt words and phrases to convey his Knowledge to others. that