Excerpt from Study, the Only Sure Means of Ultimate Success: An Address Delivered Before the Thalian and Phi Delta Societies of Oglethorpe University, Georgia, at the Annual Commencement, July 19th, 1854
When the disastrous battle of Cunaxa had decided the fate of Cyrus, the "Ten Thousand Greeks," who had followed the standard of that ambitious prince almost to the gates of Babylon, now commenced, as you remember, under Xenophon, the perilous retreat which the pen of that accomplished commander has immortalized.
Every admirer of the Anabasis will recall the dangers which they encountered, and the hardships they endured, pursued and harrassed as they were by the victorious Persians, and at the same time waylaid and attacked by every barbarian nation through whose territories they passed; that with ranks daily thinned by famine and fatigue, or by the loss of those who sunk amid the marshes from cold and snow, this little band advanced, crossing rapid rivers, penetrating vast deserts and ascending lofty mountains under the darts of an implacable foe, that stood entrenched and awaiting them at every turn. Nor can the student forget the only bright hour in that unhappy march, when, after breasting these dangers for eight months, and exhausted as well in patience as in strength, they gained at length the "Holy Mount" of Theches, which overlooks the Euxine - that then it was as soon as the men who were in the van had ascended the mountain and saw the sea, (which alone separated them from their native land,) they raised a terrific shout, and Xenophon, supposing they were attacked, instantly hurried forward with the rear to their relief, and reaching the summit saw no enemy, but their own troops, officers and men, frantic with joy, embracing each other, while with tears gushing from their eyes they shouted only, "The Sea! the Sea!"
It is, young gentlemen of the Graduating Class, with somewhat of kindred feeling that you are animated here to-day.
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