Illinois Verse/President Kinley
President Kinley
Responsibility is his to guideThe training ship thru many dangers rifeIn the whirling currents of the resistless tideThat pours out toward the unknown sea of life.And wise must be his choice of those who aidIn carrying on the task of teaching youthThe wisdom that experience has madeTheir own while yet they ever seek fresh truth.
A chieftan whose piercing eyes sweep o'er the heightsTo which he must attain and lead his band.And keenly he watches for the signal lightsWith which progress onward beckons those in command.In single phrase his character to sum,—"Difficulties were made to be overcome."