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_An Ode to be read on the laying of the foundation stone of / the new Oglethorpe University, January, 1915, at Atlanta, / Georgia_
/ I. As when with oldtime passion for this Land / Here once she stood, and in her pride, sent forth / Workmen on every hand, / Sowing the seed of knowledge South and North, / More gracious now than ever, let her rise, / The splendor of a new dawn in her eyes; / Grave, youngest sister of that company, / That smiling wear / Laurel and pine / And wild magnolias in their flowing hair; / The sisters Academe, / With thoughts divine, / Standing with eyes a-dream, / Gazing beyond the world, into the sea, / Where lie the Islands of Infinity.