Yet fuller and deeper the message they bring;
Still through every volume each line that we meet
In undertone earnest our motto shall ring.
“For light” do we ponder the history vast
Which spreads through the ages its sunshine and shade,
“With light” for the present, we come from the past,
With lessons whose impress we can not evade.
“For light” must we study the many-hued lines
Which Greece with her delicate pencil has traced;
While Rome with her pride and her grandeur combines