Elms College - Elmata Yearbook (Chicopee, MA)

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ETX ELMATAXG The enior's Prayer In modern days, when man would still The eternal voice from Sinai's hill, While critics scan, peruse, deride Mosaic hests, our Christian guide, Must I nor question, nor reply, But shun the iconoclast's wild eye, While Truth the scaffold climbs to die In modern days? Sure on my Commencement fain were I Men by my bier should testify, Here lies one sunk to kindred dust, To turn men's hearts to God, the just. I-le helped to right much that's awry In modern days. In loving memory, the Class of 1937 cherish these significant verses in commemora- tion of a great life which so perfectly paralleled this epitaph written in youth. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Patrick F. Doyle composed these lines while a Senior at Holy Cross in 1902. ,.. - 1937 CN f'7