Show I CASTLES CASTLES I 11 By Dr BRALEY I The of ot marble or granite stand eland fast tast I agia but finally crumble The wind nind Ind and the weather I them th m at nt last And over osor their ruInse ruins we ne stumble I Though high be the battlements thick be the wall Though lofty their chambers and andi splendid andl Yet sooner or later they topple audi andi and fallAnd tall fall I And all nil of their splendor Is ended Oh men must build castles of Iron and stono stonG ITo I To house their material glories Strong ca whose hose beauty and wonder onder are known I And told In the bra bravest est ot of stories Yet these too pass as tho the thoI centuries beat I Against their it gret bastions and to tow ers And they shalbe shall be dust neath hu- hu maniti's feet teet In ages far tar distant from ours The castles of granite and steel fade fada away ay But 1 ever eier er more brilliantly gleam gleam- gleamIng lug Ing Our dream castles stand with their parapets gay And all of their streamIng No 1 toe foe can destroy them time storms them In vain They glow with enchantment su- su supernal supernal su pernal The c castles ot of stone turn to dust ot of the time pl plain ln But Dut Castles In Air are eternal 1923 NEA Ben Service Ice Inc |