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 TO MY STUDENTS. 
 
 I. 
 
 Mysteriously the voice of nature sounds 
 
 In many a tone. 
 
 The thunder-peal from hill to hill rebounds: 
 
 Anon is blown 
 
 A whisper scarcely heard from aspen-trees 
 
 That quiver under a scarce-moving breeze 
 
 On summer afternoons. 
 
 But those are other tunes 
 
 The wind, in wintry hour. 
 
 Shouts scudding o'er the ocean 
 
 In the strong joy of power, 
 
 The glory of swift motion. 
 
 And that is still another song 
 
 That Nature sings the whole day long 
 
 In murmuring of wayward brooks 
 
 Down lonelv glens, in woody nooks. 
 
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 But thougli ilic suuiids that strike llic car 
 
 lie e'er so clear, 
 
 The thoupflit, vvhicli Nature throut;-!! them si)ea1<s, 
 
 In vain man seeks 
 
 I'ntil he brin.i(s tlie tlioui^lit in liis own soul 
 
 Tliat can alone unroll 
 
 The meaning of the hidden powers 
 
 Which thrill through all the myriad tones 
 
 That Nature owns : 
 
 Nothing we hear in these hut wliat is ours. 
 
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 And now when ■Memory si)reads her sails 
 
 To catch once more the genial gales 
 
 Which bore me oft with many a crew 
 
 That every autimm brought anew 
 
 To thrid the windings of the shore, 
 
 Where all the fruits of human lore, 
 
 As by an alchemy divine. 
 
 Distil a spiritual wine 
 
 Full potent to enchant the soul 
 
 With visions of the World-whole, 
 
 From many a ba\- 
 
 And many a headland bold 
 
 The breezes, that of old 
 
 Were wont to play, 
 
 Sweep o'er the strings 
 
 
 
 
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 ( )f passion and of thought 
 
 Till the soul rings 
 
 With voices that are fraught 
 
 With all the mystery of Nature's tones. 
 
 Tis in such voices that our nature owns 
 
 The universal nature iliat we share. 
 
 O therefore yc, to whom tlicsc voices bear 
 
 Their message, bring willi you the mind 
 
 Of eagerness to find 
 
 \Miatever love selects of good 
 
 'l\> be the food 
 
 Of that true life which knows not death, 
 
 liut draws its V^reath 
 
 From the eternal thought 
 
 Of which the world is wrouHit. 
 
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 For, though these voices cannot thrill 
 
 With the melodious skill 
 
 ( )f bards whose sense of tone 
 
 By tender art has grown 
 
 irntil it seems a finer ear 
 
 Tuned with a subtle ])ower to hear 
 
 The rhythmic motions of tlie Eternal Will, 
 
 N'et the dear lispings of a child 
 
 v^peak to the gentle heart 
 
 More than the ]^hrases that are piled 
 
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 In curious forms of art. 
 
 Nor may it be too bold to hope. 
 
 These stammering accents may call back 
 
 The voice that led you on the track 
 
 On which you erst essayed to ^rope 
 
 Your way to that serener height 
 
 Krom which the soul attains clear sight 
 
 Of life's divine significance. 
 
 The old voice, heard once more, perchance 
 
 May strike an echo from the past, 
 
 That rings with memories of your own, 
 
 In happy chime with every tone 
 
 Of thought and feeling, which shall last 
 
 With me while life retains the joy 
 
 With which \e have enriohcd its glorious employ. 
 
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 For whatsoe'er the hue 
 
 With which a kindly fancy tints 
 
 The ])icliires that your meniorx ])riuts 
 
 In her review 
 
 Of scenes where we have toiled together, 
 
 Yet shall no stress of stormy weather, 
 
 E'en when life's drift is whirled 
 
 Across a hope-lorn world, 
 
 E'er stifle that perennial mood 
 
 Of earnest happy gratitude, 
 
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 Which fluats through all my thoughts of those (jld 
 Like a delicious steam [times, 
 
 Of odours wafted from ethereal cliuies, 
 Soothing the soul into a glorious dream 
 Of that ambrosial home 
 From which ihey come. 
 
 r O truly spoke the ancient sage. 
 
 ' Who traced the sources of his lore, 
 Part to his teachers, and still more 
 To fellowships of his own age, 
 But found by far the richest store 
 In that great harvest always growing 
 From seed he had 1)een daily sowing 
 Among the youth, 
 Who came with generous vearnine* 
 To rea]) the ri])e fruits of his learning. 
 And gave him l)ack a wiser insiglit into truth. 
 
 V. 
 
 Ay me! the tides of life 
 
 Abide not always at the flow. 
 
 Oft-times they ebb so low 
 
 They scarce can carry all the weight 
 
 Of what is needed for its toil and strife. 
 
 And then goes overboard the precious freight 
 
 That gives to life its glory and its power,— 
 
 The memories that make delicious food 
 
For a reflective lunir, 
 
 I'he hopes tliat tire the blood 
 
 With visions of a good 
 
 Which, though far off in nicasurenicnts of time, 
 
 Js ever near at hand 
 
 In that transcendent clime 
 
 Which is our native land. 
 
 Vet even then it is to yon 
 
 The rescue from desjjair is due. 
 
 When in the j^loom of doubts and fears 
 
 The loil of all the years 
 
 Shows like the meaningless unrest of waves 
 
 That tumble on a shoreless sea, 
 
 Often from you there ct)nies to me 
 
 A voice that saves 
 
 By its brave tone of cheer, 
 
 As when the spirit lias been ])ent in caves 
 
 ( )f sleepless fever through a stifling night, 
 
 With the returning light 
 
 There breaks upon the ear, 
 
 ^>om leaves of gladly fluttering trees, 
 
 The whisper of a freshening breeze 
 
 That bursts from the opening' ])ortals of the Dawn. 
 
 b'or ye, too, have been drawn 
 
 Into the noble warfare for the right; 
 
 And ye. too, find the battle's dust 
 
 May often dim the sight, 
 
 The arm mav sink unnerved 
 
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Willi tlu' unrt'iniltinj; rtj^lit, 
 
 The heart l)i'f«)r(." that never swcrvtMl 
 
 May yit'ld in sickiMiinjic chstrust 
 
 From weariness of hope deferred. 
 
 And yet I learn that \e are not deterred 
 
 \j\ shapes of liorror lliat are l)nt creations 
 
 ( )f fearful fancy peoplini,^ a void ji^looni. 
 
 Vin often, to illume 
 
 'J'he t.'mt^led ma/es amid which \c fare. 
 
 Throuji^h Memory's clear air 
 
 There s.;leam some kindl\- scintillati' ns 
 
 Of that d' ::'- lij^^ht 
 
 Which made ou. life-task l)ri<Tfht. 
 
 And still sends .i>laddeninj^ smiles 
 
 E'en from those earlier vears which seem 
 
 Now fadinj^' into days of yore 
 
 Dn that limerock-bound shore. 
 
 \\'her(^ I lie broad waters of our noble stream 
 
 Wander bewildered 'monj;" a thousand isles. 
 
 As well as from these years in which life's fount 
 
 Has Sv-^emed to Mow with many a ^'d\u 
 
 On that fair slope, where Charlcss Wain 
 
 Swin.c:s nijLihtly o'er the Royal Mount. 
 
 And not without tt-ium])hant cclee 
 
 A', times I see 
 
 Tne keen resistless sword 
 
 Of a brave truthful word 
 
 Swoop down upon a blatant lie, 
 
And shiver all its power of harm. 
 
 deem it not all vanity 
 
 If, when 1 recognize the arm 
 
 That strikes the tf^hchant blow, .-.■• 
 
 1 dare to feel 
 
 Exultant in the thought, "[ know 
 
 The place which tempered that true steel." 
 
 VI. 
 
 The darkest cloud of man's despair 
 
 Is fringed with glorious light; 
 
 Its gloom is but a shadow thrown 
 
 From splendours flashing on his sight. 
 
 For. though in rapture he may dare 
 
 To l)uild a hope. of making them his own. 
 
 Yet at the best his toilsome care 
 
 Leaves but a wcjrk of dull and sombre hut? 
 
 To mortify his view. 
 
 The very reason, therefore, be makes moan 
 
 Iff that he cannot choose to be deceived, 
 
 But that his nature keej^s him true 
 
 To those imperial splendours he has known. 
 
 More fair bv far than aught he has achieved. 
 
 For oft he seems like some ill-fated creature 
 
 That once had wings, 
 
 And still bears many a feature 
 
 Recalling an activity that springs 
 
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Above earth's dust and mire, 
 
 And, as it soars still higher, sings 
 
 The rapture of a flight. 
 
 That seems as if it would aspire 
 
 To reach the ethereal infinite. 
 
 But no ; a surer light 
 
 Is dawning in that glorious lore, 
 
 In which, from more to more, 
 
 The Sovereign Reason of the world 
 
 Throughout the ages is unfurled. 
 
 That lore reveals the story, 
 
 Not of a vanished glory 
 
 Which man may ne'er retrieve, 
 
 Rather of undeveloped power. 
 
 Like that which is the dower 
 
 Of infancy; and the v;hole life of man, 
 
 Whate'er it may achieve 
 
 E'en in its longest span, 
 
 Shows but as childhood to a vast career. 
 
 For the most searching gaze 
 
 Of science into that dim haze 
 
 That veils the world's infinitude 
 
 Appears, in sober mood. 
 
 Rut as the wondering look 
 
 Of infant-eyes that peer 
 
 Into some little nook 
 
 They see, but cannot understand; 
 
 And, howsoever grand 
 
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 Man's loftiest endeavour, 
 
 Yet doth it ever 
 
 Seem but as childlike play, 
 
 Forecasting great activities, 
 
 Of which, while sense and fancy still hold sway, 
 
 He can but strike some pleasing images. 
 
 So thrills the eagle-nestling's wing 
 
 With many ^ prophetic flutter, 
 
 Ere yet his feeble throat can utter 
 
 Its strong defiant cry 
 
 At the majestic sweep 
 
 Of the imperial pinions, as they fling 
 
 Adown the eyry's dizzy steep, 
 
 Or mount exultingly on high 
 
 To roam at will the boundless spaces of the sky 
 
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 VII. 
 
 And therefore when that fire beneficent, 
 
 Which burns through all the processes of time, 
 
 And drains away the dross of human deeds, 
 
 Has tried the work in which these years were spent, 
 
 Your kindly recognition feeds 
 
 A hope sublime. 
 
 That that fierce trial may unfold, 
 
 Out of its fiery foam, 
 
 Some residue of that true gold 
 
 Which forms the current coin of our eternal home. 
 
 
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