Poems and inscriptions . he northernwind Like the wild voice of shipwreck from a reef!81 Poems and Inscriptions By false hope lulled (his courage gave us hope!)By day, by night we watched,—until unfurledAt last the word of fate! Our memories Cherish one tender thought in their sad scope:He, looking from the window on this world,Found comfort in the moving green of trees. 82 THE CITY OF LIGHT THE PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION WHAT shall we name itAs is our bounden duty,—This new, swift-builded fairy city of Beauty,—What name that shall not shame it,Shall make it live beyond its too short livingWith p
Poems and inscriptions . he northernwind Like the wild voice of shipwreck from a reef!81 Poems and Inscriptions By false hope lulled (his courage gave us hope!)By day, by night we watched,—until unfurledAt last the word of fate! Our memories Cherish one tender thought in their sad scope:He, looking from the window on this world,Found comfort in the moving green of trees. 82 THE CITY OF LIGHT THE PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION WHAT shall we name itAs is our bounden duty,—This new, swift-builded fairy city of Beauty,—What name that shall not shame it,Shall make it live beyond its too short livingWith praises and thanksgiving. Its name—how shall we doubt it,—We who have seen, when the blue darkness falls,83 Poems and Inscriptions Leap into lines of light its domes, and spires, and walls,Pylons, and colonnades, and towers,All garlanded with starry flowers!Its name—what heart that did not shout itWhen, from afar, flamed sudden against the nightThe City of Light! Amherst House, Buffalo^ May, 1901. INSCRIPTIONS. INSCRIPTIONS FOR THE PAN-AMERICANEXPOSITION BUFFALO, 1901 INSCRIPTIONS FORTHE PROPYL/E A PANEL IHERE, BY THE GREAT WATERSOF THE NORTH, ARE BROUGHTTOGETHER THE PEOPLES OF THETWO AMERICAS, IN EXPOSITIONOF THEIR RESOURCES, INDUS-TRIES, PRODUCTS, INVENTIONS,ARTS AND IDEAS 88 Poems and Inscriptions PANEL IITHAT THE CENTURY NOW BEGUNMAY UNITE IN THE BONDS OFPEACE, KNOWLEDGE, GOOD-WILL,FRIENDSHIP, AND NOBLE EMULA-TION ALL THE DWELLERS ONTHE CONTINENTS AND ISLANDSOF THE NEW WORLD 89 INSCRIPTIONS FORTHE STADIUM PANEL I NOT IGNOBLE ARE THE DAYS OF PEACE, NOT WITHOUT COURAGE AND LAURELED VICTORIES PANEL IIHE WHO FAILS BRAVELY HASNOT TRULY FAILED, BUT IS HIM-SELF ALSO A CONQUEROR PANEL III WHO SHUNS THE DUST AND SWEAT OF THE CONTEST ON HIS BROW FALLS NOT THE COOL SHADE OF THE OLIVE 90 INSCRIPTIONS FORTHE GREAT PYLONSOF THE TRIUM-PHAL CAUSEWAY ON THE PYLONS WERE STATUESOF COURAGE, LIBERTY, TOLER-ANCE, TRUTH, BENEVOLENCE,PATRIOTISM, HOSPITALITY ANDJUSTICE PANEL ITHE SPIRIT
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