A CALL TO YOUTH.
T)0 not let your flight be clogged by all those trifles which are now considered necessities of life. Mind you, by making your baggage-train longer you clip your wings. Oh, youth, youth! what a glorious world! Unknown realms ahead of you, hidden behind the mists of the morning. As you move on new islands appear, mountainsummits shoot up through the clearing mists, one behind another, wailing for you to climb; dense new forests unfold for you to explore; free, boundless plains for you to traverse. You are “foot-loose and heart-free” to sail beyond the sunset and to roam the universe. What a joyous thing to see the day dawning and In know that you arc bound on a voyage to new realms. “Your soul bounds upward on beams of light to the vault of Heaven.” You laugh at the risks and smile at the dangers, youth’s buoyant faith and self-trust is in command. The storm cannot reach you. And In! far ahead, above the mist and Hie scud, rises your Land of Beyond! We all have a Land of Beyond to seek in life—what more can we ask? Our paid is lo find the trail that leads to it. A long trail, a hard trail, maybe; but. Hie call comes to us, and we have to go. Booted deep in the nature of every one of us is the spirit of adventure, the call of the wild vibrating under all our actions, making life deeper and higher and nobler.— Dr. Nansen.
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19887, 16 May 1936, Page 15 (Supplement)
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255A CALL TO YOUTH. Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19887, 16 May 1936, Page 15 (Supplement)
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