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Presented to the Museum by
Mrs Leland Stanford
June 10th 1903

The Stanford Sequoia

Consecration Amelia W. Truesdell

At the Dedication of the Memorial Church,
Stanford University, January 25, 1903.

Before this new-made altar, Lord,
Passions and cavilings we lay;
All prejudices which would stay
Our spirits from the sweet accord
With Love, which wrought man's highest good,
Not in the controversial creeds;
But shone, in serving daily needs,
Divine in human brotherhood.

O sweet home-love! this love divine,
Interpreting with sorrow's art,
How hast thou, on a broken heart,
Upreared the spirit's sacred shrine,
That other souls may reach the height
Of temples builded without hand,
Wherein eternal Law shall stand,
And God himself shall be the light.

A Stanford Hymn Amelia W. Truesdell

AGAINST the night, the skies disclose
Their beauty shadow-fraught;
From out the night, a star arose,
Through sorrow, gleamed a thought.

But for the grief which sat by death,
And dreamed its dream alone,
Our Alma ne'er had felt God's breath
Turning to life the stone, -

God's breath of love, to purpose warm
Transmuting human loss;
Revealing life's ideal form
To those beneath the cross.

O Stanford, look unto the height!
Athene-like, thy youth!
Led by thy star, seek thou thy might
In time's advancing truth!

From the "Quad," 1904