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  will see beautiful pictures in the fleecy clouds as they , '
  gently float from clime to clime.  
_   ., He will listen to the music of the warbhng birds as  yn
  ' ' they flit from bough to bough. He will hearken to the  
’   ri le of the s arklinv founts as the send forth their ·  
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  incipient waters to swell the vast sea. But all these  
  lessons will vanish as the morning dew drop melts before  l
  the noon-day sun, when we shall have learned the lesson r  
Q? of lessons-—fear God and keep His commandments, for  
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  the fruits thereof are eternal life.  ,|
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tg Shall we not, therefore, learn and make tlns choice,  gil
  that we may follow "The few, the immortal names, that  
  were not born to die ?"  
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  Then of the path where now we trod some vestige will  
  remain when we sleep silently beneath the sod. This agi
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  we know by the fate of those gone before, whose foot-  
  rints ti1ne’s swollen stream has vainl * striven to oblit-  fi
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T   Our college career has been but the fair spring days of ,  
  a golden harvest if we will only endeavor to do more   .
  than we have done; to win greater victories than we  j
  have won.  ll
  We are not to o forth to-da with our di ilomas,  El
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  thinkinv that the last lesson has been learned and that j
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  our course is complete.  1
  "Hope springs eternal in the human breast, _  I
  Man never is but always to be blessed?  Q
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  VVhen Archimedes had learned the inode of deterinin-  
  ing the relative quantities of gold and silver in Hiero’s  
  crown, did he rest contented with this one lesson? No. 2 
  The ecstacv which he felt when he ran through the  
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  streets of Syracuse, crying "Eurel