The Harvard Advocate Author:Harvard University General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1917 Original Publisher: Harvard Advocate. Subjects: College students' writings, American Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get fr... more »ee trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Ube mew Sbafeespeares A century to come, and you, Insolent bards of some new school Will wreathe your brows with sage and rue, And drink wine lest your hearts be cool; Then (as the lyre is well in tune, And as the wine is fully sped, And the day is fair -- perhaps it's June -- And the wreath fits well upon your head) You will sound an immortal strain, Heavy with unuttered tears And dolorous as a brave man's pain About the deeds of bygone years. Martial then your song will be Of those vast days when the whole world Met the whole world in war; the sea Was from her high foundations hurled. And men, beside whose tale the sand That rings around the vacant shore Is little, shook the six-fold land With deeds that live for evermore. You will sing the heroic age To music on your ringing lyre And nurse your souls with noble rage And beat your epics into fire. In such a verse to such a chord Did Shakespeare write of Henry, he The victor of the torch and sword. Although for his brave victory Young Gallic maidens tore their hair And strong men bowed beneath the yoke. It's hard, O Muse, to strum an air When choking with the battle smoke. Your tunes will tingle. For them I . Could live a century to hear, Forgetting now that brave men die,' And that the time of death is near. /. T. Rogers ' 18 an attacf e on 1iters Xibre Christopher La Farge '20 TO me it has always seemed that free verse is not only the outcome of our modern minds and their new principles, and ideas, but ...« less