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FOUNDER'S HYMN
Upon this wild and lone frontier
Behold the edifice we rear—
With yet no homes to call our own:
Man shall not live by bread alone.
We raise no cloisters richly dight,
Casting a dim religious light:
We will no student monks or nuns,
We build for daughters as for sons.
Here shall our youth know what is known,
Here grow to heights great men have grown;
Here some shall make themselves a name,
Here some be known to old-world fame.
Here shall our State take earliest pride,
Herein first match all states beside;
Hence men shall go to strengthen hands,
And build up lore in older lands.
A generation hence shall be
New builders, bold of faith as we;
For millions yet shall crowd these fields,
And claim the best our culture yields.
—L.A. SHERMAN.
February 15, 1894.
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