Jam Satis Est!

JAM SATIS EST !

Enough ! enough ! time fades awaj ' , Swiftly from you , from me to-day , Adown these careworn years ; Its darkened pages hourly tell Of many a sad and long farewell , Of ceaseless falling tears .

Enough indeed this life has brought Of sadrlen'd scenes , and sadder thought , To us poor students here ; Vain for us now the schoolman ' s theme , Vainer each gay and golden dream , Each voice of grief or fear .

All , all are gone ; and in their place Stern Nemesis , with angry face , With grave upbraiding mien , Becalls the flight of days and hours , Of waning joys and wasted pow ' rs , The scenes that once have been !

0 foolish mortals , " lingering long , " Such seems the burden of her song , "Vanish'd your little day , Gone in a moment—nor return The hopes which bless , the fires which burn , Your penance , or your play . '

How idle then at last appears This onward march of hurrying years , To those who stop and think ; Alas ! how many only seem Vainly to strive and vainly dream"Who loiter on the bihik

Of that old stream in rapid flow Upon whose surface swiftly go The waste and waifs of men ; But all who watch that sparkling tide Know that in swiftness side by side , All floats beyond our ken .

Enough , old wisdom s voice has said , Enough by all may still be read On time ' s illumin'd page , To warn us all how Ave should strive , We who still happily survive , To live above the age .

Jam Satis Est!

Yes , in God ' s better hopes of love , In peaceful promises above , In heaven ' s own golden gates , We find a holier , truer lore , Which fails us never , never more , Amid our fears and fates .

Enough for us that we have learn'd , As human hearts have ever yeam'd , For that great truth of all , Amid the years Avhich roll away , Amid the joys which will not stay , The trials which befall ,

AVhich bids ns trust securely now , And learn submissively to bow To His supreme decree , Who gives and takes at His good -will , Whose tender care and wisdom still Eternally agree !

Enough for us that life is o ' er , Enough we see the deathless shore , Where neither care nor pains Can try or trouble all who there Have found that land so dear and fair , Where peace for ever reigns ! A . F . A . W .

Let There Be Light.

LET THERE BE LIGHT .

Masonry lives m the light ; her deeds are deeds of light ; her AVOKIS are Avords of light ; and to the light she brings all Avho kneel at her sacred altar . With her eye fixed on the great moral laAvs , as the setless sun of her firmament , Avhich ever sheds refulgent beams of light on the pathway

Avhieh'leads to the fulfilment of her destiny , and the accomplishment of her humane purposes , she utterly abhors and contemns the traitor to her teachings , Avho skulks hi the darkness , and amid the ebulitions of an imhalloAved passion , or the jeers and

jests of an unthoughted mirth , or the polluting demands of an insatiable appetite , makes a plaything of God ' s name , and AvalloAvs in the mud Avhich his OAVU debauchery has made without the fit emblem of the baseness Avithin . —Grand Master Charles 0 . Clark , of North Carolina ,