Congratulatory Addresses Recited in the Theatre Oxford At the Installation of
Congratulatory Addresses Recited in the Theatre Oxford At the Installation of
University of Oxford
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Trim " Satcpvoev Thrice welcome to the seat thy worth hath won, Proud in her grief sad Isis hails her son : Welcome ! but question not the sigh that starts From the sealed sorrow of a thousand hearts ;- Welcome ! but ask not why in Sheldon's hall The voice must faulter, and the greeting fall ; Greeting as warm, and joy as deep and proud As though that greeting, and that joy were loud ; And faith as steadfast, love as strong we bear Though Past and Present mingle smile and tear : We weave two wr...eaths, we twine two garlands now, One of bright olive for thine honoured brow And one of cypress for the mighty dust Who is our Memory, as thou our Trust : And therefore mourn we, therefore we rejoice Shaping glad welcomes with a saddened voice ; Because to-day great Arthur's seat we see Vacant of him, held worthily of thee. Sad and remindful task it were to say What hope and gladness graced the happy day When diadem' d with Victory's brightest bays As Knight that entereth after Herald's praise Hither he came whose fame had come before From Spain's sierras, and the Belgic shore, When Learning's self forgetting doubt and dread Unclasped the helmet from her Warrior's head, Ungirt the good steel sword his thigh displayed, And wiped the bloody honour from its blade : Nor held unfitting, nor unworthy thought The gentle work her timid fingers wrought For holiest is the war that winneth Peace, And best the strife that biddeth striving cease ; And now !
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