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"UBI SUNT QUI ANTE NOS?" Since joy and knowledge and beauty, and the love of man to man

Passing the love of women, the links of our chain began,—

Yea, even as these are ceaseless, so they who were liegemen here

Hark back and are all Centurions this night of the fiftieth year!

Yes, the draftsmen and craftsmen have fashioned with a dream's compelling force

The Century's lordlier temple, have builded it course on course,

And a luminiferous ether floods the great assembly-hall

Where the scintillant "C. A." colophon burns high in the sight of all.

The painters have hung from end to end cloud-canvases ablaze

With that color-scheme from us hidden in the ultra-violet rays, 134