Word: clasp
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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FELLOW-COMRADES and Fellow-Associates:- Only twelve months ago the oblong beauties which now clasp their hands of grit to raise this magnificent structure, slumbered in their native beds. Behold the stupendous work organized by the financial ability of one, executed and completed by the physical efforts of many, into a glorious edifice. See this spacious hall, those eastward-looking wings, and a dome more lofty and resplendent than that which looked down upon the chains of Regulus! Although no nosce te is emblazoned on the portal, a symbol more expressive than the Delphic inscription stands out in bold relief...
When with a closer hand I clasp its bloom...
...felt I'd clasp thee soon again...
...methinks I clasp thee once again...