Indiana University - Arbutus Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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THE STUDENT BUILDING FR A I- N 1 E HUME '

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Indiana expects every man to do his daddy

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:□□! 1 EVENING NEAR THE CAMPUS . KARL „r„K,,.„X IX CII.LUWV cluud.s of blue and gold that line The western skies, like royalty ' s rich couch All draped in glory to receive its king, Who, guarded, comes to sleep, — the red sun sinks. It drops, a glowing ball, beyond the woods On yonder hill ; and through that woods of tall Tree trunks it flames like stripes of fire : — A moment rests upon the woodland crest, As if to take one final gaze before Departing, then to nothing slowdy shrinks. Yet, like a memory lingering in the mind. There rests upon the summit of a hill High to the east a glorious crown of light ; And on the hill a home, which seems ablaze. So bright its windows flash their signal fires Back toward the sunken sun that, long before. Had spread the shadows of the western woods Adown the eastern slope, and o ' er the vales. The crows fly west in twos and threes : the larks .■ re hushed, and silent are the thrushes, while The cardinal darts off across the sky To seek its cedar home. In leafy bowers The crooning doves are nestled snug. As if To improvise a milky way on earth. There blinks and flickers down along the vale A stretch of twinkling fire-flies ; and they seem A lake whose trembling waves shake back the light Of stars above. I ' ar through the dampening air The frogs ' clear serenade trills in the dark. The distant headlands fade ; the woods recede ; The nearer copses cower in the dusk ; The fences stretch away into mere dimness ; And last, the western forest slowly blends To darkness. Daunted, all the stars terrene Turn out their feeble lamps ; the frogs all hush. As if to listen to the stillness, and. Listening, forget to sing, and fall asleep. Then night. n DEAri