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TO DR. THEODOR CHRISTOMANNOS by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD

First Line: GREAT LOVER OF THE UPPER WORLD
Last Line: OF THY BELOVED TIROL.
Subject(s): LOVE; MEMORY; SOUL;
Great lover of the upper world
Of ice and stainless snow,
Thy path through space we cannot trace
From this dull plain below;
But if to-night thy sky be bright,
Or dark with driving storm,
The loyal soul of old Tirol
Still keeps thy memory warm.

The Rosengarten's glowing cliffs
Now bear thine honored name,
And from to-day fair Karersee
Shall share with thee its fame;
For, sculptured high against the sky,
Beside a graven scroll,
Stands fiercely proud athwart the cloud
The eagle of Tirol.

Long may it guard with steadfast gaze
This country of the free,
And tell thy praise in other days
To thousands yet to be!
Like flakes of snow men come and go,
But no more genial soul
Shall ever climb the heights sublime
Of thy beloved Tirol.



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