Heidelberg University - Aurora Yearbook (Tiffin, OH)

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Resolving cliscords are the ladder rungs Vvhereon we rise to higher harmonies. Some day shall die the din of lying tongues, The clouds shall break, shine out the sun Burst full and clear Upon our ear I-!eav'n's harping symphonies! Till then we strive, nor struggle shung With fate, or foe we confident can cope, Drawing fresh courage from deep wells of hope. Young men shall not lack vision 3. Let youth be bold And brave derision, Nor high hopes lower To the dead average thatls gone before! And since our God is kind to young and old, I-las ever for them both some better thing in store Let old men, too, dream dreams of good, Nor doubt their dreams' exceeding likelihood! or 5? JFE3: ,lir-f Sz 12? 53 24

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Perhapses, rumors, ifs, Or blundering, vice and crime,- These in the press to headlines rise like scum! Thus shouted forth they tend our judgment to confuse As noise the sense of hearing may benumb. To read life's meaning will be difficult While time's revolving And we are still envolvingg We cannot measure now the final net result. Nor may we wait the end When in the full perspective of the past Life is seen whole at last And we its every lesson comprehend. Life meantime must be lived, Its tasks are here, must now be done, Its battles day by day are lost or won: By idle waiting life were negatived. I-low dare We then despair, And palsy effort, suffocate resolve? Who shall from choice and action us absolve? Since walk we must And can not always see our way, We'll walk by faith, we'll trust Till shines a brighter day. Thanks meanwhile are we For mystic intimations of a goal Toward which the globe is whirledg For passing glimpses of a sane and ordered world On which its Master rides in majesty And holds it in controlg For broken snatches of celestial song That growing strong Shall drown all grief and wrong. Refusing to believe that weire dead leaves of chance, Whirling about In eddyings of doubt. Where motion may perhaps be seen, but no advance, We list'n through storm and tempest shock, Though the earth quake And its foundations rock, Our ear attuned to Wisdom's still small voiceg And we shall hear it and rejoice! Though for a time the heart should ache. Though problem-ridden reels the brain, Faith shall be stronger for the strain: 23

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