University of Pittsburgh - Owl Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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 The shouts of workmen and the clear ring of cold steel tell us that THE CATHEDRAL

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 1 have watched them for many days, and I have heeded their • example. Men may say that they are only things of wood and stone, but to me they arc a symbol of constancy. In grey days and in fair they stand for all the world to see. and from them I have learned always to be my true self. Fogs may come and cloud them, and night may come and swathe them in darkness, but they are always the same. Therefore shall I go and be constant also. I'nhappiness and misery, which are the fogs and darkness of life shall not make me untrue to myself, and in the soft summer winds of friendship and in the wintcrv blasts of dislike and distrust I shall be true to what is really me. One other lesson I have learned from them. The two up-pointing spires have taught me to look upward and outward. They do not regard the streets below, nor do they see the wrong that men do at their thresholds; their gaze is fixed on far horizons. In like manner shall I let pass unnoticed the smallness and pettiness of men, by dreaming of distant horizons. I shall walk swiftly and far, and I shall be gone long; but a time will come when I shall return, and in that time I shall have lived their lesson, and men shall regard me in honor and esteem. Then I shall tell them of your example, 0 spires, and all will be well.