The Sigma Chi Quarterly: The Official Organ of the Sigma Chi Fraternity, Volume 13

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The Fraternity, 1894

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Pagina 130 - Wept o'er his wounds, or, tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices In their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Pagina 298 - The hand of the reaper Takes the ears that are hoary, But the voice of the weeper Wails manhood in glory. The autumn winds rushing Waft the leaves that are searest, But our flower was in flushing, When blighting was nearest.
Pagina 130 - Statesman, yet friend to truth ; of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear ! Who broke no promise, served no private end, Who gained no title, and who lost no friend; Ennobled by himself, by all approved, Praised, wept, and honoured by the Muse he loved.
Pagina 130 - O, sir, yee do no ken the law — the law is a sort of hocuspocus science, that smiles in yeer face, while it picks yeer pocket : and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it — Here the parties come, and seemingly in great affliction.
Pagina 130 - What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, Prove false again? Two hundred more.
Pagina 131 - tis the twanging horn ! o'er yonder bridge That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in which the moon Sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright ; He comes, the herald of a noisy world. With spattered boots, strapped waist, and frozen locks. News from all nations lumbering at his back.
Pagina 130 - See one physician, like a sculler plies, The patient lingers and by inches dies, But two physicians, like a pair of oars, Waft him more swiftly to the Stygian shores.
Pagina 218 - Not only may you recognize it in the devoted, tender care of one another in illness, and in the kind and fruitful helpfulness of older members to their brethren, but often in the spirit no less gracious and beautiful that meets the daily, hourly demands of such a communal life for trivial personal concessions and sacrifices. To live in these chapter houses is, therefore to learn to touch the lives of others at innumerable points with ease, and grace, and thoughtful kindness. Nor, as has been intimated,...
Pagina 330 - Fer the world is full of roses, and the roses full of dew, And the dew is full of heavenly love that drips fer me and you.
Pagina 115 - I think that to have known one good old man — one man who, through the chances and rubs of a long life, has carried his heart in his hand, like a palm branch, waving all discords into peace, helps our faith in God, in ourselves, and in each other, more than many sermons.

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