The life of a child needs the life of its kind,
O ye stupid and blind!
Then the best of your heart and the best of your brain!
The face of all beauty! The soul without stain!
Your noblest! Your wisest! With us is the place
To consecrate life to the good of the race!
That our childhood may pass with the best you can give,
And our manhood so live!
The wisdom of years, the experience deep
That shall laugh with our waking and watch with our sleep,