Pleasures and Pains of the Student's Life Two Poems, One, Delivered in 1811, at the Commencement in Harvard College, Cambridge; And the Other, a Sequel to the Former, Delivered in 1852, at a Class-Meeting of the Surviving Graduates of the First Named Yea

Excerpt from Pleasures and Pains of the Student's Life: Two Poems, One, Delivered in 1811, at the Commencement in Harvard College, Cambridge; And the Other, a Sequel to the Former, Delivered in 1852, at a Class-Meeting of the Surviving Graduates of the First Named Year
When envious Time, With unrelenting hand, Dissolves the union of some little band, A band connected by those hallowed ties, That from the birth of lettered friendship rise, Each lingering soul, before the parting sigh, One moment waits, to View the years gone by; Memory still loves to hover o'er the place, And all our pleasures and our pains retrace. The Student is the subject of my song; few are his pleasures, -yet those few are strong; Not the gay, transient moment of delight, Not hurried transports felt but in their ?ight.
Unlike all else, the Student's joys endure, Intense, expansive, energetic, pure. Whether o'er classic plains he loves to rove, Midst Attic bowers, or through the Mantuan grove, Whether, with scientific eye, to trace The various modes of number, time, and space, Whether on wings of heavenly truth to rise, And penetrate the secrets of the skies, Or, downward tending, with an humble eye, Through Nature's laws explore a Deity, His are the joys no stranger breast can feel, NO wit define, no utterance reveal. Nor yet, alas! Unmixed the joys we boast; Our pleasures still proportioned labors cost. An anxibus tear oft fills the Student's eye, And his breast heaves with many a struggling sigh. His is the task, the long, long task, to explore Of every age the lumber and the lore. Need I describe his struggles and his strife.
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