To have what we want is riches, but to be able to do without is power.—George MacDonald.
The past is gone forever; the present is so brief and fleeting we can scarcely call it our own; in the future lies our larger, better hope of a happier civilization. Not the men of yesterday, not the men of to-day, but the men of to-morrow, the boys, are the ones who are to make the world right. They are
THE WORLD’S VICTORS
Let every man be occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is capable, and die with the consciousness that he has done his best.—Sydney Smith.
Hurrah for the beacon-lights of earth,—
The brave, triumphant boys!
Hurrah for their joyous shouts of mirth,
And their blood-bestirring noise!
The bliss of being shall never die,
Nor the old world seem depressed