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Read on the Fourth Commemoration Day February	A
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How tall among her sisters and how fair	B
How grave beyond her youth yet debonair	B
As dawn 'mid wrinkled Matres of old lands	C
Our youngest Alma Mater modest stands	C
In four brief cycles round the punctual sun	D
Has she old Learning's latest daughter won	D
This grace this stature and this fruitful fame	E
Howbeit she was born	F
Unnoised as any stealing summer morn	F
From far the sages saw from far they came	E
And ministered to her	G
Led by the soaring genius'd Sylvester	G
That earlier loosed the knot great Newton tied	H
And flung the door of Fame's locked temple wide	H
As favorable fairies thronged of old and blessed	I
The cradled princess with their several best	I
So gifts and dowers meet	J
To lay at Wisdom's feet	J
These liberal masters largely brought	K
Dear diamonds of their long compressed thought	K
Rich stones from out the labyrinthine cave	L
Of research pearls from Time's profoundest wave	L
And many a jewel brave of brilliant ray	M
Dug in the far obscure Cathay	M
Of meditation deep	N
With flowers of such as keep	N
Their fragrant tissues and their heavenly hues	O
Fresh bathed forever in eternal dews	O
The violet with her low drooped eye	P
For learned modesty	A
The student snow drop that doth hang and pore	Q
Upon the earth like Science evermore	Q
And underneath the clod doth grope and grope	R
The astronomer heliotrope	R
That watches heaven with a constant eye	P
The daring crocus unafraid to try	P
When Nature calls the February snows	S
And patience' perfect rose	S
Thus sped with helps of love and toil and thought	K
Thus forwarded of faith with hope thus fraught	K
In four brief cycles round the stringent sun	D
This youngest sister hath her stature won	D
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Nay why regard	T
The passing of the years Nor made nor marr'd	T
By help or hindrance of slow Time was she	A
O'er this fair growth Time had no mastery	A
So quick she bloomed she seemed to bloom at birth	U
As Eve from Adam or as he from earth	U
Superb o'er slow increase of day on day	M
Complete as Pallas she began her way	M
Yet not from Jove's unwrinkled forehead sprung	V
But long time dreamed and out of trouble wrung	V
Fore seen wise plann'd pure child of thought and pain	W
Leapt our Minerva from a mortal brain	W
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And here O finer Pallas long remain	W
Sit on these Maryland hills and fix thy reign	W
And frame a fairer Athens than of yore	Q
In these blest bounds of Baltimore	Q
Here where the climates meet	J
That each may make the other's lack complete	J
Where Florida's soft Favonian airs beguile	X
The nipping North where nature's powers smile	X
Where Chesapeake holds frankly forth her hands	C
Spread wide with invitation to all lands	C
Where now the eager people yearn to find	Y
The organizing hand that fast may bind	Y
Loose straws of aimless aspiration fain	W
In sheaves of serviceable grain	W
Here old and new in one	D
Through nobler cycles round a richer sun	D
O'er rule our modern ways	Z
O blest Minerva of these larger days	Z
Call here thy congress of the great the wise	A2
The hearing ears the seeing eyes	A2
Enrich us out of every farthest clime	E
Yea make all ages native to our time	E
Till thou the freedom of the city grant	B2
To each most antique habitant	B2
Of Fame	E
Bring Shakespeare back a man and not a name	E
Let every player that shall mimic us	C2
In audience see old godlike Aeschylus	C2
Bring Homer Dante Plato Socrates	C2
Bring Virgil from the visionary seas	C2
Of old romance bring Milton no more blind	B2
Bring large Lucretius with unmaniac mind	B2
Bring all gold hearts and high resolved wills	C2
To be with us about these happy hills	C2
Bring old Renown	D2
To walk familiar citizen of the town	D2
Bring Tolerance that can kiss and disagree	A
Bring Virtue Honor Truth and Loyalty	A
Bring Faith that sees with undissembling eyes	C2
Bring all large Loves and heavenly Charities	C2
Till man seem less a riddle unto man	E2
And fair Utopia less Utopian	D
And many peoples call from shore to shore	Q
'The world has bloomed again at Baltimore '	-
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Baltimore	Q

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