Let never a foe upon her rise!

THE BAR OF SCIENCE

Who thwarts thy will?

O Science, who can stop thine onward sweep,

Or lay a bar ’fore thine ambitious ways?

Oh, who will fling the gauntlet down to thee

And dare estop thee in thy feats of skill

That thou so bold perform’st? None, none of man,

But God alone. He knows what mysteries

To scuttle from thy sight.