Memories of Brown; traditions and recollections gathered from many sources . hat the readers of Memoriesof Brown will thank me for reproducing it in this con-nection : Our words may not float down the surging ages, As Hindoo lamps adown the sacred stream ;We may not stand sublime on historys pages, The bright ideals of the futures dream ;Yet we may all strive for the goal assigned us, Glad if we win, and happy if we fail;Work calmly on, nor care to leave behind us The lurid glaring of the meteors we go forth, the smiling world before us Shouts to our youth the old inspiring tune ;The
Memories of Brown; traditions and recollections gathered from many sources . hat the readers of Memoriesof Brown will thank me for reproducing it in this con-nection : Our words may not float down the surging ages, As Hindoo lamps adown the sacred stream ;We may not stand sublime on historys pages, The bright ideals of the futures dream ;Yet we may all strive for the goal assigned us, Glad if we win, and happy if we fail;Work calmly on, nor care to leave behind us The lurid glaring of the meteors we go forth, the smiling world before us Shouts to our youth the old inspiring tune ;The same blue sky of God is bending oer us. The green earth sparkles in the joy of afar the beck of fate shall call us, Mid winters boreal chill or summers blaze,Fond memorys chain of flowers shall still enthrall us, Wreathed by the spirits of these vanished days. Memories of Brown 1 ^3 Our hearts shall bear them safe through lifes commotion,Their fading gleam shall light us to our graves; As in the shell the memories of oceanMurmur forever of the sounding John Hay, 1858(One of his latest portraits) Hay, during his college career, was, like his favoritepoet, Shelley, of a singularly modest and retiring disposi-tion ; but, withal, of so winning a manner that no onecould be in his presence, even for a few moments, withoutfalling under the spell which his conversation and com-panionship invariably cast upon all who came within his 154 Memories of Brown influence. He was, indeed, to his little circle of intimates,a young Dr. Johnson without his boorishness, or a without his frivolity. Upon his first enteringthe university, the intellectual bullies of his class, mistak-ing these traits for weakness, were disposed to look downupon the newly entered collegian from Illinois. It wasbut a little while, however, when his sterling worth gavethem pause. During his entire college life the stand in scholarshiptaken by Hay among his classmates was of a high order.
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