Aspirations of Youth: A Poem

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conclude that the external triumph of a religion among ignorant and wicked people, is not so much owing to the purity and lofti-

ness of its truths, as to its harmony with prevailing errors and corruptions.

ASPIRATIONS OF YOUTH.

Higher, higher, will we climb, up the mount of glory, That our names may live through time, in our country's story; Happy, when her welfare calls. He who conquers, he who falls!

Deeper, deeper, let us toil in the mines of knowledge. Nature's wealth and learning's spoil, win from school and college; Delve we there for richer gems Than the stars of diadems.

Onward, onward, will we press, through the path of duty; Virtue is true happiness, excellence true heauty. Minds are of supernal birth. Let us make a heaven of earth.

Closer, closer, then we knit hearts and hands together, Where our fireside comforts sit, in the wildest weather; Oh, they wander wide who roam. For the joys of life from home.

Nearer, dearer hands of love draw our souls in union, To our Father's house above, to the Saints' communion; Thither ever hope ascend. There may all our labors end. — James Montgomery.