The eyes of the ages are toward him.
The love of the race is his own.
The heart of the world will reward him
With a name that is more than a throne.
The life that he lives is unending,
For he is the servant of youth.
Earth is lit by the flame he is tending
--This priest at the altar of truth.
[Poem is on cover page with the following additional text: The Sunday
School Journal, August 1922. The cover has an illustration of a
historical setting. A man wearing robes and headband, sitting in a
prominent stone chair on a raised platform, is looking at an unrolled
scroll in his hands. He faces the viewer while four nearby children
dressed in chitons and sandals look at him: one stands on each side of
the chair, the third sits in front, and the fourth stands in front. The
chair and people are left of center. A large column frames the right
side. The poem is between the people and column and prominently
displayed in a housing resembling the facade of a temple. A tiger
skin--head attached with gaping mouth--is in the foreground.
Immediately behind all this is a stone wall with an engraving of a
person whose activity is obscured by the publication’s title.]