“We plant this stone as some small seed
Is sown at springtime, warm with earth;
We sow this seed as some good deed
Is sown, to grow until its worth
Shall grow, through rugged steeps of time,
To touch the God-built stars sublime.”

—  Joaquin Miller

"The Larger College".
In Classic Shades, and Other Poems (1890)

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