Ode to the Sather Campanile (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Ode to the Sather Campanile Above the noise and tumult of the day Thou risest to the silences of heaven, A glorious thing from even unto even, A beauty's vision fading not away. It must have been a more than blessed dream, When all the feelings rose conjointly wise Against the glamour of some worldly scheme, That moved her heart to raise thee to the skies, Where thou in all thy veins of steel and stone With Aspiration's purest blood shall thrill, As evermore around thee shall be sown The seeds of Learning and of Righteous Will, And back of thee the radiant, everlasting hill. Gigantic ¿ower thou, whose beauty beams With unimagined loveliness of Art, Of all the campus blossoming the heart And sublimated essence of its dreams, Giving the fragrance of unwonted blooms In many a far-away, delightsome dell, Or where the cypress builds her heavy glooms, Or e'en where mild-eyed fairies love to dwell, Where books disclose their magic-working lore, And cast their cunning lures for stumbling feet, While sweets as strange as life their joyance pour, Till all the moments in one round complete Within the arms of Concord pleasurably meet. The fateful hours of the passing day From thee shall ever musically peal, And through the somnolence of night shall steal, Till lost in whispering echoes far away. Perpetual guardian thou, whose tongue shall tell The. Lesson learnt in Indolence's bowers, When idle thoughts the idle bosom swell, And Time unreaped its wretched prey devours. Yet shall thy bells of ever-present cheer Hearten the struggle of laborious souls, And Trade herself will turn a listening ear, As she pursues her daily myriad goals, When mid her roar thy golden voice the minute tolls. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.