Poems of Mary Artemisia Lathbury, Chautauqua Laureate
by Mary Artemisia Lathbury (9781150280825)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1915 Original Publisher: The Nunc licet press Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE FEAST OF YEARS. 1874-1899 FAIR Chautauqua sacred fane, Lift thy leafy gates again From the limits of the land, Hope and Memory, hand in hand, Come with songs, and smiles, and tears, Come to keep the Feast of Years. Fair Chautauqua years have sped: Heaven-born, and forest bred, Grown to greatness, beauty, strength, Thou hast proved thy birth at length. Through thy human grace is wrought God's eternal love and thought. Fair Chautauqua these are thine, -- Builders of thy early shrine; Keepers of the seals are these, -- Bearers of the sacred keys; These thy prophets, sages, seers, Gather to the Feast of Years. Fair Chautauqua always ours, Count thy camps, and tell thy towers. From a hundred hills they rise, Under gray or orient skies; O'er a hundred gates has fame Carved the letters of thy name. Fair Chautauqua spread thy hands, -- Call us through the listening lands; Bid us rise and build with thee Highways through the Century. We are ready at thy call, -- Gracious Mother of us all ARISE AND SHINE. ET up, lift up thy voice with singing, Dear land, with strength lift up thy voice The kingdoms of the earth are bringing Their treasures to thy gates -- rejoice Chorus Arise and shine in youth immortal, Thy light is come, thy King appears Beyond the Century's swinging portal, Breaks a new dawn -- the thousand years Yet who renowned in state or story, Shall enter while the Kingliest waits? What star attracts thee when His glory Shines through the half unfolded gates? -- Chorus Ch...

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