The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-01-22

halls,
Build we, then. nightly these resur-
rected walls.
For He hath wrought to whom inn
patient time
Is but the breath that moves tremb-
ling leaf!
Who gathers TO the harvesting His
sheaf,
That He may safely garner in it's
prime.
The cleaning corn.
so hath He wrought amid the song
full morn,
The earnest noon, the twilight and
the night.
Thus to enhance the glory of a land
BY men who turn into the morning
light.
And apprehend the vision and the
dream
or new day, the courage and the
might
Evince of hearts that hail the high
command
OF duty. until now we seem
Well launched upon the deep ming
stream
Which flows at length the troubled
narrows by,
And then sweeps on 30 wider des-
tiny.
Once, kindled at Minerva's altar
flame,
A torch was borne across our south
ern sky
BY eager hands who sought the
worthy fame
Which comes at length 70 noblest
ministry
Yet, soon exuTgent waves
From deep, Plutonian caves,
Quenched that far flame, aud flung
the brand away.
But kndled by that classic fire
Ere it's bright vision fled the evil
day
Or here or there a star, whose vital
Burns steadily. while time exultiug
flows,
So that the torch once quenched In
deepest night
They touch and kindie now again
And proudly give to younger men
To bear IL forth, that 1t may ever be
A flaming beacon for a world to seel
And yet we question II too much our
hearts
May turn into the far, heroic past.
When there were men whose souls
were freely cast
In large, imperial mould, or when the
arts
Lefs unto coming days
A legacy of praise
Linked with the liberal enlightened
mind
Whose fame has been the service of
mankind.
A fhxorr wall ~rrsbv
But there stands alone.
Whose song sspires To every need Of
worth:
A. melody that thrills to every zone
Which sweeps co I'll the circle of the
earths
Great In hts art, but greater In his
soul.
Because he built that greatness upon
dodt
Scarce has the 1owiy flower of the
sod
Lent such a grace beneath the smil-
ing sUn---
So rich a grace beneath cur southern
sun
And he that hearkens shall be Hwtft
TO hear
F'ame's s!ivery trumpet eohoing-
LANIER
fouI vi iAiF yFf1iS NlFN6r tANStEIlHf
are known
To that devoted band wsro mar he'd
away,
And sudden found themselves to man
hood grown
When manly impulse gior1ried tf,<
day.
a voice 6escepds no us afar
AS from the holocaust of war
Here on the fatal field the preciou,
seed
So lavished in the soi1 of deadly
Shall bear harvest TO "A nations
And fill the garners of "A larger life.
Oh. glorious youth arsong the count.
less slain,
Hope Of land berefe. To us shall be
The sacred task to oonsecrate again
That costly sacrifice to liberty!
We call us to eternal victories
And for she healing of tho land
WE love
To iay foundations that shall ne~e,
And bid thereon the wallis of peacs
It's bat moment that we pause 70
view
That rich. that far-expsnding legac,
Left by the alma mater that we
praise.
The grace and ornament Of eidea
| days
| To SOW. to reap, to garner In the
new.
As the new beauty of the virgin
morn.
| Or Of cycle that is nohier born:
| New in the toward purpose Of the
| race,
In the infinity OF thought.
In the infinity OF grace,
To save the spirit OF the world to be
That from themselves. as from 8
tyranny.
The coming generations shall be FREQ
To find no mask of age on truth
| But beauty of eternal youth.
That SHE may he, beyond all othe'
| things,
Bride of the soul, and mon her unite
| kings,
This liz the mount of vision
Let us arise to that exalted height
| Where every cloud rolls far beneath
our feet,
And see q nation walking In It's might
Great in it's victories greater In de.
feat:
Expanding In it's majesty
| BETTING ages yet to be,
To serve them in the eras yet Il
come
Upon world of wopdroas change
we build.