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BOOKS BY LLOYD MIFFLIN 
 
 The Hills 
 
 Page 8x10. "With eight reproductions from pen drawings by 
 Thos. Moran, N. A. 
 
 Privately printed, 1896 
 At the Gates of Song 
 
 Illustrated with ten reproductions in halftone after drawings by 
 Thos. Moran, N.A. First and second editions 
 
 ' Esies & Lauriat, Boston, 1897 
 
 Third edition revised and printed from new plates, with portrait, 
 
 Henry Frowde, London, 1901 
 The Slopes of Helicon and other Poems 
 
 With eight illustrations by Thos. Moran, N. A., and with two 
 by the author 
 
 Estes & Lauriat, Boston, 1898 
 Echoes of Greek Idyls Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1899 
 
 The Fields of Dawn and Later Sonnets 
 
 Houghton, Mifflin <fe Co., 1900 
 An Ode on Memorial Day 
 
 Written and delivered at the request of Post 118, G. A. R., 18T8 
 
 Out of Print 
 Ode on the Semi-Centennial of 
 
 Franklin AND Marshall College, 1903 
 
 Fifty copies only, printed on Japan Vellum, signed by the author 
 
 IN PRESS 
 CASTALIAN DAYS 
 
 Henry Frowde, London 
 
 IN PREPARATION 
 COLLECTED SONNETS— CCCL 
 
AN ODE 
 
 ON THE 
 
 SEMI-CENTENNIAL OF FRANKLIN AND 
 MARSHALL COLLEGE 
 
 BY 
 
 LLOYD MIFFLIN 
 
 THE HOPFER PKESS 
 
 UNDER THE MAPLES, MOUNT JOY, PENNSYLVANIA 
 
 MDCCCCIII 
 
THE LIBRARY OF 
 CONGRESS. 
 
 Two Co 
 
 pies Received 
 
 AU@ 
 
 1 1903 
 
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 COPY B'. 1 
 
 COPYRIGHT, 1903 
 BY LLOYD MIFFLIN 
 
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 THE HOFFtR /»RESS 
 U. 8, A. 
 
AN ODE 
 
AN ODE 
 
 ON THE 
 
 SEMI-CENTENNIAL OF FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE, 
 
 JUNE, 1903 
 
 WRITTEN FOR ORAL DELIVERY 
 
 Si monumentum reguiris, drcumspice 
 
 Now, on this memorable day, 
 Within this fertile garden of the land 
 
 Blessed with perennial streams, 
 Swatara, Octoraro, and Pequea, 
 
 And hundred brooklets clear as they 
 
 With which the region teems ; 
 Rich with alluvial valleys, that the hand 
 Sprung from the German, honorably tills, 
 And where the cattle on a thousand hills 
 
AN ODE ON THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL OF 
 
 Browse ankle-deep in clover-bloom, 
 Or by the Conestoga margin wade 
 
 Far in the willowy shade ; 
 Now, when the green illimitable vales 
 
 And dimpled slopes and dells 
 
 Shed round the rare perfume 
 Of coming harvests with their wealth replete, 
 
 And here, returning to the dales 
 Amid the fruitful heat, 
 June, reminiscent of the rippling sea 
 
 And all its rolling swells. 
 Waves with her breath our ripening fields of grain 
 And makes a billowy ocean of the wheat ; 
 
 Now, when the lambs are in the flock 
 And call across the green ; 
 And when the red-winged blackbird on the dock 
 
 Sings as he settles down, serene 
 
FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE 
 
 In cloudless ecstasy, 
 And the dear lark, with joy akin to pain. 
 Floats o'er our fields — a feathered song — 
 
 Pathetically sweet ; — 
 In such a time — so joyous — it were meet 
 
 That we, ephemera of an hour 
 
 Who to the living still belong, 
 Should lift our voices through the lips of Song 
 
 In recognition of the price, 
 In recognition of the faith — the power, 
 
 The courage and the sacrifice. 
 
 The struggles, often threatening defeat, — 
 The final triumph of the men now dead, 
 
 English and German bred. 
 
 Whose effort and whose aid 
 Made possible this studious retreat, 
 These College Halls, cresting the gentle glade, 
 
AN ODE ON THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL OF 
 
 These Academic bowers, 
 These stately Walls in classic shade 
 Crowned with their clustered towers ! 
 
 Well may we praise these men of old, 
 
 Whose work of faith untold — 
 A faith that here survives — 
 
 Helped rear this dual Hall ; 
 
 And those who brought their gold, 
 And those who, being poor, gave more than all 
 
 In that they gave their lives ! 
 Honor the Founders ! men to be revered ; 
 We need not name them, are they not renowned 
 
 And to the heart endeared ? 
 
 And those that clustered round 
 
 Your alien Flower from Heidelberg ; 
 And him who drew the lightnings down, 
 
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FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE 
 
 The generous Printer of renown 
 
 Who, at the age of eighty-one, 
 With patriot hands — 
 That now are dust a hundred years and more — 
 
 Here where the College stands. 
 
 Laid the first corner-stone, — 
 His name in part your Alma Mater bears ; 
 While as an added coronal she wears 
 
 Others especially her own — 
 
 A glorious line of men of lore : 
 Your College knows each honored name, 
 
 She held them reverent of yore 
 
 And worthy of acclaim ; 
 And in your Annals where each one appears 
 The page is blotted by her grateful tears. 
 You love their memory, and they live apart 
 Enshrined within the sanctum of the heart : 
 
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AN ODE ON THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL OF 
 
 Honor the Scholar, and the Good, the Jnst ! 
 Honor the silent dust ! 
 
 Yea ! honor them — the dead ! as time withdraws 
 We see they bravely battled in their cause. 
 Duty hath still her heroes — valiant Knights 
 Unblazoned by the world, but in men's hearts 
 
 Their silent deeds, like beacon-lights 
 
 Shine on, and guide us from afar. 
 The mortal comes ; he labors, and departs ; 
 But strongly girt with spiritual powers 
 
 His soul beams on us like a star 
 That still doth shed 
 Its first effulgence though the star be dead — 
 
 Though gone, the light survives : 
 
 And if our lips are sealed 
 From plaudits for the living, none the less 
 
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FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE 
 
 Time, the recorder, on his scroll revealed. 
 Will show the morrow they fulfilled their trust 
 With honor and with nobleness : 
 Teachers of fervid zeal ; 
 The guardian mentors in an age complex ; 
 
 Torch-bearers of the future's weal ; 
 True to the motto on their chosen Seal — 
 Lux et Lex ! 
 
 Lo, the old Nation, day by day, 
 Passes, alas ! away, 
 
 And the new Nation needs 
 Men of high purpose and heroic deeds 
 For the stern conflict of the Country's life. 
 
 Send forth, O College, such as these ! 
 
 Unto thy land give thou such legacies ! 
 Equip thy youth with rugged virtues high, 
 
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AN ODE ON THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL OF 
 
 Not with that apathy the indifferent wear 
 
 Fatal to man and state, 
 But anchored, resolute to do and dare, 
 Unpurchasable, of nerve and deed. 
 
 Men simply-great. 
 With deep conviction, who, at utmost need 
 Would stand the champions of the State, 
 Against her foes 
 
 Storming the enemy's gate 
 With thundrous eloquence of patriot words ; 
 
 Or, if necessity arose. 
 
 Girt with inviolate swords 
 Fulgent with light, 
 Battle for Conscience, Liberty and Right ; 
 Such men the voice of History doth revere- 
 O nurture them within this College here ! 
 
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FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE 
 
 What of the donors? — those who in the stress 
 Of arduous seasons to the rescue came, — 
 
 Look o'er that fair demesne, — 
 The statued lawn, the noble piles, the storied green, — 
 
 Are not the beauty and the lovehness 
 
 Of such Memorials sufficient fame, 
 With sweet remembrance through the ages hence? 
 
 — Sufficient recompense? .... 
 From the lone bourn of life's long pilgrimage 
 Let him reply, who dwells in honored age — 
 Founder of that fair Hall which bears his name — 
 Is there a crown more grateful to the brow 
 
 Than this that crowns him now? 
 
 Mother of Learning, hail ! 
 Oh, mayst thou, prosperous, rejoice 
 For years recurrent of thy Jubilee ! 
 
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AN ODE ON THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL OF 
 
 Long may thy turrets beckon, and thy voice 
 Summon the youth from many a distant vale ! 
 
 Long may men find in thee, 
 
 Within thy classic pale. 
 
 Blessing of studious serenity — 
 The ethereal fruit and flower of the Wise ! 
 And when this age shall pass, as pass it must. 
 
 And crumble into dust, 
 Thy towers shall still arise, gladding the eyes 
 
 Of true men yet to be, 
 
 And by the side of these 
 
 Grouped 'mid the gracious trees,— 
 
 Mater of sweet amenities ! — 
 May added Halls and new-built spires 
 Lift their enlightening crests above the lawn ; 
 And the still Greater College rear her head — 
 
 Greater, not dearer than the old, — 
 
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FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE 
 
 And wider radiance shed, 
 And by her lustrous effluence manifold 
 
 Illumination spread, — 
 True harbinger of the new-born world's desires. 
 
 Forerunner of the hoped-for Dawn 
 
 That ever in the future glows, 
 
 To which the soul aspires ; 
 And as the depths of Ignorance decrease 
 
 And the dense darkness goes, 
 Oh, mayst thou, filled with potency anew 
 
 The sacred cause pursue 
 
 Nor with the Century cease. 
 But still may Learning blossom as the rose 
 
 And all thy paths be peace ! 
 
 Norwood 
 
 June, 1903. 
 
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