Alma College - Scotsman Yearbook (Alma, MI)

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A WINTER PIECE , . . winter has yet brighter scenes,-her boasts Splendors beyond what gorgeous summer knows, Or autumn, with his many fruits, and woods All flushed with many hues. Come, when the rains Have glazed the snow, and clothed the trees with ice While the slant sun of February pours Into the bowers a flood of light. Approach The encrusted surface shall upbear thy steps, And the broad arching portals of the grove Welcome thy entering. Look ! the massy trunks Are cased in pure crystal, each light spray, Nodding and tinkling in the breath of heaven, If studded with its trembling water-drops, That stream with rainbow radiance as they move. But round the parent stem the long low boughs Bend, in a glittering ring, and arbors hide The grassy floor. Oh ! you might deem the spot The spacious cavern of the virgin mine, Deep in the womb of earth-where the gems grow, And diamonds put forth radiant rods and bud With amethyst and topaz-and the place Lit up, most royally, with the pure beam That dwells in them. Or haply the mast hall Of fairy palace, that outlasts the night, And fades not in the glory of the sun,- Where crystal columns send forth slender shafts And crossing arches, and fantastic aisles Wind from the sight in brightness, and are lost Among the crowded pillars. Raise thine eye,- Thou seest no cavern roof, no palace vault, There the blue sky and the white drifting cloud Look in. Again the wildered fancy dreams Of spouting fountains, frozen as they rose, And fixed, with all their branching jets, in air, And all their sluices sealed. All, all is light, Light without shade. But all shall pass away With the next sun. From numberless vast trunks, Loosened, the crashing ice shall make a sound Like the far roar of rivers, and the eye Shall close o'er the brown woods as it was wont. William Cullen Bryant

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