" Once, on this earth, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all are gone, one generation vanishing after another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone like ghosts at cockcrow."----------G.M. Trevelyan
THE PIONEERS
They anchored firm foundations here,
With bases broad and deep;
And left their valued work unsigned,
Before they fell asleep.
They went away with tombs unmarked,
No signiture on scroll;
And lodged no claims to share a part,
Earth's product as a whole.
They anchored firm foundations here,
With bases broad and deep;
On which to build Time's distant goal,
And stepping stones to God.
