. Mary Baldwin Seminary Bluestocking 1903 . Maid with eyes like starlight, Tell to me, I of thy rare learning. Making glad thy filling every heart with wisdoms kindly ray. So bright and gay, you scarcely mayBelieve this maid a student; Yet such is she, and fitly we Pronounce her wise and prudent. Shadows of Coming PROPHET, the last of those lonely ones ofearth, stood gaunt upon the height, and caughtglimpses of the years that stretch away beyondthe mountains. Twas the sunset of life gave him mystical lore,And coming events cast their shadows before. Then the sunset o
. Mary Baldwin Seminary Bluestocking 1903 . Maid with eyes like starlight, Tell to me, I of thy rare learning. Making glad thy filling every heart with wisdoms kindly ray. So bright and gay, you scarcely mayBelieve this maid a student; Yet such is she, and fitly we Pronounce her wise and prudent. Shadows of Coming PROPHET, the last of those lonely ones ofearth, stood gaunt upon the height, and caughtglimpses of the years that stretch away beyondthe mountains. Twas the sunset of life gave him mystical lore,And coming events cast their shadows before. Then the sunset of earth drew the shadow cur-tains from those distant peaks. Vision soughttheir gilded tops and lingered. The brightnessdazzled, and the shining summits seemed blend-ed in a golden path; a soul crossed it with the sunlight, and the mountainknew the prophet no more. That was in the olden days. We climb perhaps to the same height,but we are practical and near-sighted. We see a mist where the moun-tains should be, and we see clearly only the valley before us. Thisescaped the prophet in his further range of vision, yet we do not doubtour reality, and we believe that our valley is one of the great ones, andthat it holds its proper place in the record of fleeting time. One scene in this valley on which many hearts are fixed, and thesunshin
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