Miami University - Recensio Yearbook (Oxford, OH)

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Moon Mist tBY GORDON CRECRAFT, ,18l A milky moon - a lazy lying Cloud, And on the sleeping campus not a breath Astir; the liquid light lay over all, A mellow radiance lingering over all, And kissing it into a deeper slumber. I stood Within the circle of the halls Sleeping myself as did the sleeping earth In all the beauty of the pale spring night, Breathing a Closer kinship With the things That I had known some years and grown to love; Breathing a certain sadness, too, that now The time of parting drew so very near. The tall twin towers lneath the melting moon, Viewed through the medium of the palpitant air, Wavering rose, and seemed to flow into Their tenuous bath of mellow, melting light; While in the floating shadows of the halls The very darkness purpled into light, Throbbed and grew purple With a mist of light. The night was very quiet; yet there were A thousand subtle murmurings 0n the air - Small stealthy stirrings as of hidden things, Of hidden life at work, all unperceived Nor even dreamed of save on such a night. I heard the tinkle of a mandolin 18

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