Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE LITTLE CITY OF THE QH08TLY HEART A. little city, a meet human nest, Lies snug on teeming lands of Central West; Its houses, broadly parked with neighbors', stand Mid shrub and blossom, in a friendly band; And midst bird-haunted maples, trees so tall They seem like rows of pillars, or a wall To lift the wide and open, sparkling sky By winter's sun-dogs, or July's red eye. Such to a stranger's sense this city seems; And so to youthful students, when with dreamt And hopes of gaining fruits of ages long— J. self-reliant, heart-high, eager throng— They swarm in dwelling, lecture-room and street, And seize to-day, yet would to-morrow greet. Democracy triumphant! For the state Set on this city's height learning elate, Its university—its trained, strong arm Stretched forth to tuccor, brain and heart to warm, Exalt the people's life and make for right Through all just works, and days of lucent light. So does the little town in beauty rest; A fellowship building an ideal best; A gem on the telluric cloak of God; A wind-flower rising from its blue-grass sod. But ever in this city's ways and shade There moves another band. All unafraid From moss-soft mounds under broad oaks they come— Where blue-bird, thrush and squirrel make their home— And through the busy town they wander far, These souls without the grosser body's wear; And pass on restless, driven by the fire That burnt in spirits who for others aspire. chapter{Section 4For their young manhood Jay in that far day When folk "went west" to work, and fight, and pray; When men embodied ancient English zeal For each man's right—the Puritan commonweal; The Puritan intensity of soul, Visions millennial, a new race to mould, These Anglo-Saxon state-makers the...