University of Nebraska Lincoln - Cornhusker Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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i i3 . HAT CITIES MEM HAVE DREAMED ! AND BUILDED OF HEWN STONE ON PLAIN AND HILL TILL MAN ' S HISTORIC SCRIPT IS STARRED AND SEAMED WITH IMAGES OF GRANDEUR THAT DO FILL DIM GENERATIONS WITH REVERBERANT AWE OF KINGS AND PEOPLES AND THEIR CITIES LAW! GREAT KARNAK WHICH TEHUTMES RAISED OF GRANITE OF SYENE AND RED PORPHYRY AND NUBIAN GOLD— AND O ' ER IT BLAZED TEHUTMES ' NAME, THE CONQUEROR ! BABEL OF THE EAST- RICH BABEL THAT DID LIE BY THE RIVERS OF PARADISE, LORD OF PEACE AND WAR . . . IN HER ORIENT MART THE FAIRSKINNED NORTHMAN MET THE SWART AND JEWELLED DAUGHTER OF THE SOUTH — AH, HONEY WAS HER MOUTH, AND HONEYED SONG WAS ALL HER BREATH ! AND HONEYED WAS THE TOMB WHEREIN THE SIREN CITY LAID HER SONS AT DEATH . . . KARNAK AND BABEL, AND SHE WHO GAVE THEIR DOOM TO EARTH ' S WIDE NATIONS — ROME, THE ETER- NAL! WHO SHOULD WITHSTAY HER ALL-IMPERIOUS MARCH . . . TODAY, THE BROKEN PILLAR AND THE RUINED ARCH PROCLAIM HER VANISHED SWAY. BUT WE SHALL BUILD MORE LASTINGLY THAN THEY! FOR WE SHALL SEAT IN TEMPLED MAJESTY, FRONTING WITH GATE SERENE THE DAWNING DAY, WHAT CITY DEEP-EYED PLATO SAW IN VISIONRY SUPERNAL- JUSTICE HER CORNER AND ALL HER LAW THAT WISDOM WHICH MUST BE THE GUIDE AND CROWN OF MORTAL DESTINY. H. B. A. I m- ' nllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Corntusber, 1914 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII ' -m I IIMIIMIII Illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllr: 9

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