It is the helm he wore in victory— And shall we have no joy? For thy green vales, oh Switzerland, he died!I will forget my sorrow in my pride! EXTRACT FROM A POEM DELIVERED AT THE DE PARTURE OF THE SENIOR CLASS OF YALE COLLEGE, IN 1826. WE shall go forth together. There will come Alike the day of trial unto all, And the rude world will buffet us alike. Temptation hath a music for all ears; And mad ambition trumpeteth to all; And the ungovernable thought within Will be in every bosom eloquent ;— Gradation, in its hidden characters. The pathway to the grave may be the same, There are distinctions that will live in heaven, The elevated brow of kings will lose The impress of regalia, and the slave His being hath a nobler strength in heaven. What is its earthly victory? Press on! For it hath tempted angels. Yet press on! For it shall make you mighty among men ; And from the eyrie of your eagle thought, Ye shall look down on monarchs. O press on! For the high ones and powerful shall come Will know the purer language of your brow, So lives the soul of man. It is the thirst For mysteries-and this is human pride! May breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, Its secret and its evidence are writ In the broad book of nature. 'Tis to have To go abroad rejoicing in the joy Of beautiful and well created things; To love the voice of waters, and the sheen In the gay sunshine, reverent in the storm; And find calm thoughts beneath the whispering tree; To see, and hear, and breathe the evidence Of God's deep wisdom in the natural world! Of human beauty,' and from light and shade The cadences of voices that are tuned |