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 TO THE SATHER CAMPANILE BY 
 EDWARD ROBESON TAYLOR 
 
 Dedicated to 
 
 Benjamin Ide Wheeler 
 
 President of the University 
 
 March 23^ 1915 
 
 PRIVATELY PRINTED 
 
 FOR THE AUTHOR 
 
 BY TAYLOR, NASH AND TAYLOR 
 
 SAN FRANCISCO 
 
I 
 
 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. 
 
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II 
 
 Gigantic flower 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. 
 
Ill 
 
 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. 
 
IV 
 
 / With hoary-headed Time a friend thou lt be, 
 
 And play with years as with fresh-hearted things 
 As thy emblazoned crest forever springs 
 
 Into the wondering air divinely free. 
 
 Here shall ambitious youth its vans wide spread 
 For flights beyond the rosiest dreams of hope ; 
 
 Or if perchance on indolences fed 
 
 With adverse circumstance it fails to cope, 
 
 The sight of thee upsoaring lone and high, 
 With Aspiration as thy soul and seal, 
 
 And Admonition blazing in thine eye, 
 
 Will rouse it like a battle s trumpet peal 
 
 To every glorious thrill Achievement dares to feel. 
 
V 
 
 So firmly dost thou grip the rocky ground, 
 
 Thy beauteous form the earthquake might assail, 
 And storms upon thee all their fury hail, 
 
 Yet scatheless at the last thou wouldst be found. 
 
 Still thou dost seem the airiest of things, 
 With lofty crest which glitters in the air, 
 
 That blooms by day a flower with radiant wings, 
 At night a beacon shining starlike there. 
 
 So ever may the men and women here 
 Foundationed be in nobleness of soul, 
 
 Unshaken by the raging storms of fear, 
 A shining light for every worthy goal, 
 Undaunted by life s waves however mad they roll. 
 
VI 
 
 Thy roots strike deeper than the claws of steel, 
 
 And bolts and bonds that hold thee in thy place, 
 
 For those are deep as universal space, 
 And wide as every longing we can feel : 
 They reach the great ideals that ever blaze 
 
 Around the empurpled summits of desire, 
 Until as conquering Gods we bless our days 
 
 With nurturing breath of their eternal fire ; 
 They stimulate the weary and the weak 
 
 To march still onward though the road be hard, 
 And Difficulty s crown rejoice to seek 
 
 Though every passageway be doubly barred, 
 
 And watchful dragons stand relentless on their guard. 
 
VII 
 
 Symbol of Truth, thou ever-precious one ; 
 
 Thy winged word speaks from thy columned stone 
 
 With voice as clear as that of some dim, lone, 
 Ice-crowned peak far reaching to the sun. 
 It wakes our bosom s golden-hearted lyre, 
 
 Until in music of seraphic strain 
 It lifts our thoughts from every low desire 
 
 Up to the wisdom of celestial gain ; 
 And may thy bells ring out in clarion sound 
 
 Truth s sacred gospel to the willing breeze, 
 Till all this place in rightness be renowned. 
 
 And till adventuring youth in season sees 
 
 What is Life s vital wine, and what its worthless lees. 
 
VIII 
 
 Beauty breathed gratefulness when thou wert planned 
 
 She saw herself in brilliancy anew, 
 
 Until from steel and stone there nobly grew 
 A marvelous thing transfiguring the land. 
 She saw her child as with immortal breath 
 
 Swell to the roots with heaven-approving pride, 
 As he who drew thy lines beyond all death 
 
 In triumph stood serenely by thy side. 
 The Muse had roamed the chambers of his soul, 
 
 Where domes and towers of song were glad to be, 
 And there he saw thee as his perfect goal, 
 
 In all the splendors of thy high degree, 
 
 Thy inexpressible, divine simplicity. 
 
Thou ceaseless monitor of worthy deeds, 
 
 We greet thee here as some familiar friend, 
 
 Who blessing gives us that can have no end, 
 And all ennoblement forever breeds. 
 Imagination sees upon thy sides 
 
 The golden names of those that never die ; 
 With those rare ones that hid their latent prides, 
 
 Yet did their work that others raised on high ; 
 With these thy stones in living glory blaze, 
 
 Thy column seems to pierce the vaulted skies, 
 And as we longer and the longer gaze, 
 
 A reverential incense seems to rise 
 
 And wreath itself in hallowed words of holy praise. 
 

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