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An Ode to be read on the laying of the foundation	A
stone of the new Oglethorpe University	B
January at Atlanta	C
Georgia	C
I	-
AS when with oldtime passion for this Land	D
Here once she stood and in her pride sent forth	E
Workmen on every hand	D
Sowing the seed of knowledge South and North	E
More gracious now than ever let her rise	F
The splendor of a new dawn in her eyes	F
Grave youngest sister of that company	B
That smiling wear	G
Laurel and pine	H
And wild magnolias in their flowing hair	G
The sisters Academe	I
With thoughts divine	H
Standing with eyes a dream	I
Gazing beyond the world into the sea	B
Where lie the Islands of Infinity	B
II	-
Now in these stormy days of stress and strain	J
When Gospel seems in vain	J
And Christianity a dream we've lost	K
That once we made our boast	L
Now when all life is brought	M
Face to grim face with naught	M
And a condition speaking trumpet lipped	N
Of works material leaving Beauty out	O
Of God's economy while horror dipped	N
Lies our buried faith full near to perish	P
'Mid the high things we cherish	P
In these tempestuous days when to and fro	Q
The serpent Evil goes and strews his way	R
With dragon's teeth that play	R
Their part as once they did in Jason's day	R
And War with menace loud	S
And footsteps metal slow	Q
And eyes a crimson hot	T
Is seen against the Heaven a burning blot	T
Of blood and tears and woe	Q
Now when no mortal living seems to know	Q
Whither to turn for hope we turn to thee	B
And such as thou art asking 'What's to be '	U
And that thou point the path	V
Above Earth's hate and wrath	V
And Madness stalking with his torch aglow	Q
Amid the ruins of the Nations slow	Q
Crumbling to ashes with Old Empire there	G
In Europe's tiger lair	G
III	-
A temple may'st thou be	B
A temple by the everlasting sea	B
For the high goddess Ideality	T
Set like a star	W
Above the peaks of dark reality	T
Shining afar	W
Above the deeds of War	X
Within the shrine of Love whose face men mar	W
With Militarism	Y
That is the prism	Y
Through which they gaze with eyes obscured of Greed	T
At the white light of God's Eternity	T
The comfort of the world the soul's great need	T
That beacons Earth indeed	T
Breaking its light intense	Z
With turmoil and suspense	Z
And failing human Sense	Z
IV	-
From thee a higher Creed	T
Shall be evolved	T
The broken lights resolved	T
Into one light again of glorious light	T
Between us and the Everlasting that is God	T
The all confusing fragments that are night	T
Lift up thy rod	T
Of knowledge and from Truth's eyeballs strip	A2
The darkness and in armor of the Right	T
Bear high the standard of imperishable light	T
Cry out 'Awake I slept awhile Awake	B2
Again I take	B2
My burden up of Truth for Jesus' sake	B2
And stand for what he stood for Peace and Thought	T
And all that's Beauty wrought	T
Through doubt and dread and ache	B2
By which the world to good at last is brought '	U
V	-
No more with silence burdened when the Land	T
Was stricken by the hand	T
Of war she rises and assumes her stand	T
For the Enduring setting firm her feet	T
On what is blind and brute	T
Still holding fast	T
With honor to the past	T
Speaking a trumpet word	T
Which shall be heard	T
As an authority no longer mute	T
VI	-
Again yea she shall stand	T
For what Truth means to Man	C2
For science and for Art and all that can	C2
Make life superior to the things that weight	T
The soul down things of hate	T
Instead of love for which the world was planned	T
May she demand	T
Faith and inspire it Song to lead her way	R
Above the crags of Wrong	D2
Into the broader day	R
And may she stand	T
For poets still poets that now the Land	T
Needs as it never needed such an one	A
As he large Nature's Son	A
Lanier who with firm hand	T
Held up her magic wand	T
Directing deep in music such as none	A
Has ever heard	T
Such music as a bird	T
Gives of its soul when dying	E2
And unconscious if it's heard	T
VII	-
So let her rise mother of greatness still	F2
Above all temporal ill	F2
Invested with all old nobility	-
Teaching the South decision self control	G2
And strength of mind and soul	G2
Achieving ends that shall embrace the whole	G2
Through deeds of heart and mind	T
And thereby bind	T
Its effort to an end	T
And reach its goal	G2
VIII	-
So shall she win	H2
A wrestler with sin	H2
Supremely to a place above the years	I2
And help men rise	F
To what is wise	F
And true beyond their mortal finite scan	C2
The purblind gaze of man	C2
Aiding with introspective eyes	F
His soul to see a higher plan	C2
Of life beyond this life above the gyves	F
Of circumstance that bind him in his place	F
Of doubt and keep away his face	F
From what alone survives	F
And what assures	F
Immortal life to that within that gives	F
Of its own self	-
And through its giving lives	F
And evermore endures	F

Madison Julius Cawein

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