Hampden Sydney College - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Hampden Sydney, VA)

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Bums I 'Tis the place where the sins are forgiven, And the soul is lifted above: N 'Tis the place where weakness is hidden, i Under the mantle of love. D Q2 cbd 'Tis the haunt of the sweetest memories, xp That linger so long in the heart, When the chill of the world has hardened, wvl Adrhd h d'ftd r Rm n e ear ones ave ri e apar . K dl K' 1 ,Tis the place where manhood is moulded. And a dream of the future is born, M When the strength of the nation lies folded Gy In the arms of a mother at dawn. .0 Ga F X 532' 0 C. 14 f

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. .W W V! '7 W ff My ff!! , M W f , M a, a M fff Uhr warning, Out of 'the nebulous ages, Cut of the palliate past, From the tomb of the nations unnumbered, From the tale of the first and the last That rose in their transient glory, ' To fall in their trammelling pride, The message is borne over centuries Hown Like the death-telling mast on the tide. And the story is satecl with sadness, For it tells of a dolorous dearthg Of the temples that towered to heaven, And crumbled in dust to the earthg 0f nations that compassed their neighbors In the might and the main of their prime, But only to fall, and cringe at the call Of the sentinel test of Time. This is the secret they whisper From out of the seminal past, From the tomb of the nations unnumbered, From the tale of the first and the last: We reared aloft our temples, We gilded our cities with goldg We conquered the earth, and reveled in mirth, And spurned the sages of old. u But still we grew in our greatness, And shackled our soul with sing For 'gold' was the cry, of the low and the high, And virtue was dumb in the din. u For the home, the heart of the nation, The source of its evil and good, Was sterile and bare, unheeding its care And the nations have fallen that stood. 13 i l

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AROUND THE CAMPUS