Read the poem: “Inscriptions, For a Bell at Cornell University”

by James Russell Lowell

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American Literature – American Poetry – James Russell Lowell
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Inscriptions
For a Bell at Cornell University

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I call as fly the irrevocable hours,
  Futile as air or strong as fate to make
Your lives of sand or granite; awful powers,
  Even as men choose, they either give or take.

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American Literature – American Poetry – James Russell Lowell

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