Illinois Verse/A Tradition
For works with similar titles, see Tradition.
A Tradition
Just within the wide entrance of Lincoln Hall With white marble severe and cold,In the path where all foot-steps would naturally fall, Lies the Gettysburg speech in bright gold.
Lowly place for those glowing, fine words of renown By the world ever justly revered;But their dynamic power could not be tread down, As some people so greatly had feared.
By consent, all the students have "hallowed this ground" And no matter how hurried or tiredThru the years, with due reverence, they've passed around —A tradition respected,—admired.