Franklin and Marshall College - Oriflamme Yearbook (Lancaster, PA)

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, H I 2 THE SENIOR POEIVI Life gave to each of us a talisman, An inner self. It was a mystic charm, Containing many unsuspected powers, An embryo of strong and gifted Man. Then as our task Life bade us to inscrihe, In letters of a quaint and rare design, Upon our amulet our chosen Mission. The latent talents, dormant in the mind, Should be set forth in characters, aliame With earnest purpose, and desire to serve In truest helpfulness our fellow-men. The arduous toiling in the life of school Enhanced our talisman's intrinsic worth, Embossed it with our own interpretation Of what life held for us among her stores. As when one reads imprinted on the fossil In fairy-penciled lines a tracery Of ages and their meaning, so we can Our own Life-given selves, and they become Our guide-book at this moment when we stand Upon the longed-for summit of our dreams. We turn to look behind us and we see Youth's prospects like to crimson-tinted clouds Rolling together as a glorious scroll. We scan the winding pathway of the Past, A roadway of bright gold with its desires: And now we look before us where there lies Crest after crest of sloping mountain height, O'er all the purple haze of days unborn. A delicately gleaming ray of light Shines through the mazy mist to lead us on To new attainments in our widening sphere. Once more we read the message of our Selves, That we may walk aright the opening way, And, mounting slowly upward hour by hour Explore the radiant secrets of the years.- ....27....1