Excerpt from Address of Professor George Herbert Palmer, at the Charter Day Exercises, March 23, 1917 The force of art by nature seems outdone, And fancied beauties by the true. In happy climes, the seat of innocence, Where Nature guides and virtue rules, Where men shall not impose for truth and sense The pedantry bf courts and schools; There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic sage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. Not such as Europe breeds in her decay; Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the Drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.