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Rh In newer days of war and trade,

Romance forgot, and faith decayed,

When Science armed and guided war,

And clerks the Janus-gates unbar,

When France, where poet never grew,

Halved and dealt the globe anew,

, raised o'er joy and strife,

Drew the firm lines of Fate and Life

And brought Olympian wisdom down

To court and mart, to gown and town.

Stooping, his finger wrote in clay

The open secret of to-day.

So bloom the unfading petals five,

And verses that all verse outlive.

HYMN

SUNG AT THE SECOND CHURCH, AT THE ORDINATION OF REV. CHANDLER ROBBINS

love the venerable house

Our fathers built to God;—

In heaven are kept their grateful vows,

Their dust endears the sod.