Make Your Mark upon the World

May 4, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since many colleges and universities have their graduation ceremonies in early May, the theme for this week is College Graduation.

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A graduation poem in which the institution speaks to its graduates of their intertwined fates:

Make your mark upon the world!

The marker comes from here.

March on life with flags unfurled!

Your provenance is clear.

You are our product, carrying

The sanction of our seal.

We are your foundry, marrying

Our knowledge to your zeal.

What you make of it is yours,

But it is also ours.

For what you do beyond our doors

Documents our powers.

Do it well, for both of us!

Our fates are intertwined.

Make your mark, for only thus

Might we sweet favor find.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: College Graduation

4/29: These Past Few Years Have Not Been Easy for Me

4/30: The Years of Getting Ready Are Now Over

5/1: The Pride I Feel Is Nothing like the Pride

5/2: The Parents of a Graduate

5/3: Thank You for Being Where All These Years Went

5/4: Make Your Mark upon the World