The book The Ivy Leaf; a book of College And Alumnæ Poems was written by author Cone Helen Gray Here you can read free online of The Ivy Leaf; a book of College And Alumnæ Poems book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Ivy Leaf; a book of College And Alumnæ Poems a good or bad book?
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The bay-crowned company, whose songs can teach The secret of eternal youth to man. And still he fought our Alma Mater's fight Against the lance of every evil tongue, And wore her favor, and was known her knight, And deemed her ever faultless, fair, and young. Oh, whatsoe'er of lasting bronze we rear This day, with pious and most fit intent That in this place his semblance shall appear. These walls themselves are his best monument ! Thoughts are the high originals of things; The shaping spirit h...ath imperial scope ; There 's not a brick to which our ivy clings But first was fashioned by his dreaming hope. For this we thank him ; but we thank him most For all he was, and for his dauntless cheer, As, looking seaward from our earthly coast, He faced the unknown deep without a fear. The talisman of his remembrance ours. We tread with braver step the ways he trod. And see, in desert age, a field of flowers, In death, a voyage piloted of God ! AN ODE FOR THE HUNDREDTH ANNIVER- SARY OF THE BIRTH OF HORACE MANN, MAY 4, 1896.
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