Cumberland University - Phoenix Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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m PHOENIX 19 2 5 ! K- fi To CumlDerlancl Cumberland, fair Cumberland — 1 may not crown thee queen of colleges. Thou canst not boast supremacy in wealth, Or fame, or years. Thou hast not marbled walls, Nor antique-statued halls, nor granite colonnades. Nor campus dotted with ten thousand trees. Meagre thy dowry, and thy teachers few, Vet thou, like hardy peasants with rude implements, Vho strike from the virgin soil its wealth Of flowers and fruit, making the earth to blossom As the rose. Hast touched the hearts of thousands and quickened them Into a new life great and wonderful. From East to West, from North to South ascend? The incense of thy praise; and myriad lives Whose service to our country and to our God Ranks aye with that of earth ' s immortal sons, Rise up to call thee blessed. Out of the ashes of civil strife ' That blightened Southern hopes, thou, like that Phoenix Chanted in anti(|ue rime, sprang, purged and chastened. Hopeful of the new life of the new age That dawned at Appomattox. And today Th consecrated toil enthrones thee peer, By thy right of service, of sister institutions Older and richer far. Cumberland, O Alma Mater, Maker of men, mother of heroes — 1 salute thee !