Oglethorpe University - Yamacraw Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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Till this I learned, that He who buildeth well Is greater than the structure that He And wiser he who learns that Heaven hears Than all the wordy wisdoms letters spell. For once, 1, helpless, hung upon His will. And twice 1 waited, hopeless, for His word, Till, lo, the wise mulberry leaves were stirred What time He planned His promise to fulfill, ] Iy mantle for my God, my Oglethorpe, If I did weave thee with a trembling hand. The virtue of Jehovah ' s magic wand, Lo, this the shuttle and the woof and w How like to Him, who, walking, dreamed was 1, And dreaming, walked beyond some Bethel ' In answer to the angel ' s kindly tones That bade him trust their ladder to the sky! How like to her who ventured to the door Of Persian palace, driven and afraid. Not knowing how she for the times was made To wield the sceptre that she trembled o ' er. How like to him, forthsummoned as he bent Beneath his fig tree, musing on his deed. To marvel when he learned whereto would lead The path that followed where his Master went Like him of trembling heart who fain would try To tread the waters of a stormy sea. Amazed that waves a willing path could be For those who hear the whisper: It is I. Aye, like to him who trusting, cast his net As One commanded forth into the deep. Wherein the Master loves and yearnings sleep. Wherewith the lines that lift the world are wet

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APOLOGIA IN view of the fact that the fore- word to a college annual is al- ways written on a hackneyed, made to order plan, which con- sists in naming the obstacles that have been encountered, the lack of a precedent, the enormity of labor expended in its compilation and the hopes for its success, and in view of the further fact that the Yamacraw staff is anxious for you to know all these things, but realizes the futility of getting it read, this book appears without a foreword. gMACRA