Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-19
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achievement is our part, aided by
courage and wisdom.
Courage we must have or we will
falter and fail in sight of the goal.
Courage we need to face life's doubts,
iife's realities, life's trials, fearlessly
and patiently. Wisdom we must have,
that our inheritance may yield us
gold rather than dross. wisdom that
we may never let the scorn, contempt
and neglect of time and men swerve
us from our purpose or take from our
hearts joy, kindness and love.
The church. the school and the
town meeting seem commonplace
enough, today, but they give birth to
courage and wisdom and so consti-
tute our chief value. The founders
We're ever men of insight and vision.
therefore they toiled. sacrificed and
endured seeing the invisible outreach
and migkt Of democracy.
We are in the midst of new days
and new ideals, we are dealing with
new and strange forces. we are about
to write a new epic. This time the
reality will put to shame the romances
and fairy stories of the ancients. We
have made unthinkable progress in
the mechanic arts. we have advanced
the fine arts, we have added to lit
erature. we have given the world
scholars, statesmen and soldiers. We
have but to be true TO the past, to
realize the high destiny of which our
fathers dreamed, for which they
struggled. n destiny which will give
US a republic without ignorance, caste,
prejudice and tyranny.
The final victory of the republic is
for us and our children We are al
ready entering upon our great task to
secure good government, honest
finance, just industrial conditions and
wise education.
Freedom stood by the cradle of the
republic. Her marrow is in our bones.
her grant in our Wills. her reason in
our brain and her fire in our blood,
therefore we cannot fail
One hundred and fifty years of prep
aration. now men and women of Bow
doinham. go up and possess the prom
Used land, to you the gift of God. the
achievement of noble fathers.
See that her forests are preserved.
that her fields are cultivated by the
light of science, that her roads invite
travel. that her schools produce sehol-
airs, that her churches teach justice,
forgiveness and love.
Miss Fogg's Poem.
Miss Clara Newhan Fogg followed Mr.
Dunnack, reading the following original
poem:
THE RIVER CALLED cATHANCE.
As Through the pines the Indian hunter
wandered.
He caught the shining CLEAN
OF waters bright whose course he brood
ing pondered.
So crooked ran the stream
And seeking. found the source with pa.
tient tracing,
And christened with strange name
Then vanished as another century facing.
Our own forefathers came
They claimed the land. they loved the
winding river,
For title flung lance.
But kept the one bestowed by primal
giver
On crooked stream-Cathance-
Built grist mill where the waters flow
ing faster
Whirled the great wheel along.
And learned the winding lengths OF
stream to master.
The while they ground the corn
Then master builders wrought great
ships that. sailing.
Brought cargoes of rich stores
To the home port. their captains never
: failing
safe anchor near the shores
Next came the lumber schooners swift
run courses,
Deep freighted, they depart.
And foreign craft of phosphate-bearing
sources
Sail down the rivers mart.
He saw with vision clear and kindling
spirit,
That time will but enhance
Those gifts that unborn races shall in
herit,
On winding shored Cathance.
His plan the people quickly met. and
gladly
Send message down the years,
But wonder not we read the words half
sadly,
Through mist of unshed tears
For anniversary and birthday greeting
Shall be for us no more
A century hence, We but as shadows.
fieeting
As wind of Cathance shore
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