RELIGION, SCIENCE, AND ART.
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"Then ye to yonder mount shall wend your way, And raise an altar there 'neath Fame's proud dome,Its spires all glist'ning in the light of day And pointing upward to the spirit's home.And there shall Genius' sons and daughters go, And with devotion bend before your shrine,When they have quaffed from crystal streams that flow From holy Inspiration's fount divine."
And then Religion raised her eyes benign, And lifted up her voice in holy prayer,While Science round her did her arms entwine, And Art embraced them both while kneeling there.O lovely Trio! may ye ever tread, With sacred footsteps, o' er this world of ours!And may earth's children by your hands be led To make it brighter than Elysian bowers!
