Notre Dame Scholastic, Vol. 18, No. 32
Disoe quasi semper victnms; vive quasi eras moriturus. VOL. XVIII. NOTRE DAME, INDIANA, APRIL iS, 18S5. No. 32. Memory. above the sea level the colder the atmosphere is. Now, when the vapor reaches the line of perpetual Dust thou art, O mighty Past, but whither snow, it is first condensed into water, and the Send the flying motes of time? water is then converted into snow. When, there We who love and laugh, yet surely wither fore, the current carrying the aqueous vapor strikes ' With the woes of every clime. agfainst a mountain %vhose summit reaches the line of pei-petual snow, it is forced over it by the on Sailing, with our phantom fleets of glory, coming current; some of the vapor is chilled and Down the waves engulfing all, falls in the form of snow on top of the mountain. Graving on white marble heights a story The snow, by alternate thawing and freezing and Broken with the falling wall. liy the action of its own weight, is converted into Weak and hollow sound our voices ice, and we have a glacier. In the void of the unknown. There are three lines to be distinguished in the While the Resurrection peal rejoices. atmosphere about the earth, namel}': The line of Pain and death about us moan. perpetual snow, the mean line of ,32° F., and the line of the lower limit of the glacier. The line of Rank on rank the tender germs are rising perpetual snow forms- a spheroid around the earth. Through the clods that held them fast, At the equator it is from 16,000 to 17,000 feet Bui no early dream, our hearts surprising above the level of the sea, and it touches the sea Rises, living from the past.
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