THE LAST CONQUEST

I DREAMT I scaled a mountain peak,
A giant there I stood;

I heard a voice within me speak
That thrilled my blood.

"Oh cast your glances wide and far,
As far as you can see,

Behold the sky, the moon, the star,
The land and sea.

"Behold the triumphs of your mind

The heights and peaks you scaled, The hearts of rocks, the oceans blind, Their mysteries unveiled.

"The conquered space, the harnessed light, The waves transmitting sound;

You struggled and you won the fight,

You sought and found.

"You catalogued each star, each sun,

Like volumes on a shelf;

One conquest more, and you have done

The conquest of yourself."

PHILIP M. RASKIN

THE GOLDEN CITY

HAVE you heard the golden city
Mentioned in the legends old?
Everlasting light shines o'er it,

Wondrous tales of it are told;

Only righteous men and women
Dwell within its gleaming wall,
Wrong is banished from its borders,
Justice reigns supreme o'er all;
Wrong is banished from its borders,
Justice reigns supreme o'er all.

We are builders of that city,
All our joys and all our groans
Help to rear its shining ramparts,
All our lives are building-stones;
But the work that we have builded,
Oft with bleeding hands and tears,
And in error and in anguish,
Will not perish with the years.
But the work that we have builded
Will not perish with the years.

It will be, at last, made perfect,
In the universal plan,

It will help to crown the labors
Of the toiling hosts of man;
It will last and shine transfigured
In the final reign of right;
It will merge into the splendors
Of the City of the Light.

It will merge into the splendors
Of the City of the Light.

FELIX ADLER

IX

LIFE KINDLETH LIFE

STILL the race of hero spirits

Pass the lamp from hand to hand.

Great deeds cannot die;

CHARLES KINGSLEY

They with the sun and morn renew their light

Forever, blessing those that look on them.

Think truly and thy thought
Shall the world's famine feed;

ALFRED TENNYSON

Speak truly, and each word of thine

Shall be a fruitful seed;

Live truly, and thy life shall be

A great and noble creed.

HORATIUS BONAR