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Excerpt from A Poem Delivered on the Anniversary of the Literary Fraternity of Waterville College, July 26, 1831
Not to the fabled Nine, nor mystic cell, Nor silent grove, where Fawns and Druids dwell; Not to the land, immortal yet in song, Mother of Poesy, our vows belong. Land of the scholar! Thou hast been the grave Of thine own genius, with no power to save, And he who wanders o'er that lovely isle, Now looks with sadness on thy funeral pile. No, though 'tis Greece, and living Greece once more, The rays re?ected from this western shore, Beamed from no shrine by human folly built, Demand no offerings from human guilt. Not Delphic priest, nor oracle combined, Could rear an altar for the human mind.
The lofty Pyramids, they stand sublime, Above the reach, beyond the touch of time Time, the great leveller of human pride, Left them unharmed, to loneliness allied, That they in their eternity might say, How mortal man must perish and decay. For 10! Within the consecrated bust.
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