DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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lass of '08 l have climhed the lofty Rockies far above the distant haze, Where men get a clearer vision of the swinging spheres ahlaze. Looked down at the long Missouri, like a silver thread awhile, Winding through the rich prairies growing larger mile hy mile, Saw the plains like gray wool blankets spread out toward the coming day Saw the Great Lakes glow like tire sheets in the distance far away. l beheld thc Cascade Mountains like grim spectres 'gainst the sky, And the range of Rich Nevadas far to southwest looming high: Hut the scene far more enchanting, holding mind and eye hy force, ls the '08 men and maidens marching through the college course. l have stood heside the salt sea on the Storm King's distant shore, When the mountain waves rolled landward, crushing everything hefore, While the sea-fowl screamed in frenzy, harhingers of coming woe. And the white foam blew so cruel far inland like driven snow: And the Storm King laughed in thunder and shot gleams of I-lellish light OlCl' the whole, great. angry ocean lighting up the stricken night, But the stirs that move men deepest are the kind the Junior folk Will create adown the future with courageous stroke-on-stroke. Men oft see the great Niagara plunging downward ton on ton, And are sore amazed and wonder at destruction going on, Oft volcanic demons mutter, then helch forth the hurning rain Over cities proud and cultured, products of the human lirain. Oftentimes the llimalayas, rivcn hy an earthquake shock, Shake and shiver, and then tumhle hills of earth and giant rock, 'l'ill it seems tlie superstructure of existence roundabout Will he crushedg hut say, the juniors never, never will lose out. Could men dress in pearls and diamonds or discover mines of gold, Sit within a monarch's palace and the regal sceptre hold, ' Could men crush out empires with one stroke of sword or spear While the plaudits of the millions fall like jewels far and near, Could they saddle some wild comet and ride round etherial tracks Past the grand-stand of the Sun-God with sky-dust upon their hacks, Or could tread the deck of Sirius sailing stellar seas apace 'l'hen sack some celestial harbor on the horder land of spaceg Yet the exultation rising from these deeds wc might relate, Seem as nothing when compared with the achievements of '08, And he who can write sincerely in heorie verse suhlimc Of its future has a poem that shall live through lleeting time. Aiiuiairr hlliRIZlll'l'lI, '08, ri -I

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A F AMILIAR HAUNT , McLAIN'S SPRINGS For Particulars Ask the Alumni ofD. P. U.