Davidson College - Quips and Cranks Yearbook (Davidson, NC)

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THE COMING OF THE NINES. On the hill-top of the campus, On the great, gray Granite hill-top, Bunyan Shearer, great and mighty, He, the master of thr :ollege, On the boulders of the hilltops Stood erect, and called the people. Called the tribes of men together. From a boulder of the Granite With his axe he broke a fragment, Fashioned it into a pipe-head. Shaped and moulded it with patience ; From the left side of his door-step. Took an alder for a pipe-stem. With the dark brown bark upon it ; Filled the pipe with good tobacco With the picked leaves of tobacco. Took a match from out his pocket Made it chafe upon his pants leg ' Till in flame it burst and kindled ; And thus standing on the hill-top Bunyan Shearer, great and mighty, Smoked the calumet, the Peace Pipe As a signal to the people. From the vales of Carolina, From the valleys of Virginia, From the orange groves of Georgia From the far-off Blue Ridge mountains From the North-land and the Southland, From the East-land and the West-land, From the seashore and the mountains, P ' rom the cities and the country, All the tribes beheld the signal; Saw the great white smoke ascending —

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3d ROSSETTL Within thy House of Life forevermore My footsteps wander, restless, to and fro; The sunlight plays upon the marble floor. The shadows dance and flicker as I go. In these wide halls, adorned with all things fair, Th}- winged fancy brightest visions sees ; And here, where music dies upon the air, Methinks I see thy Pleasure lie at ease. But ia thy House of Life I seek in vain, A little chamber where the Heart may rest — A bird, that tappeth on thy window-pane, And seeketh dumbl)-, where to make her nest. In all the fullness of thy destiny, In verj ' truth, thou hast no room for me ! 14

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The white vapor of the Peace Pipe. And the fathers of the Freshmen Said, Behold it, the peace signal By this signal thus descending Bending like a flying riband Waving thus — like it would beckon; Bunyan Shearer, great and mighty Calls the tribes of men together Calls the Freshmen to his Campus. On the Railways, through the counties Came the Freshmen of the people, Came the many Smiths and Turners, Came McConnell and McFadyen, Came McLaughlin and Jack Farries, Came a Matheson and Haney, Came McAllister and Murphy, Came a Douglas and Tom Plunket, Came Sam Robinson and Royster, Came the long, lank Abernethy, Came Bunch Stokes, likewise Stokes Munroe And Johnny Ward, the mighty speaker, Came McKoenigen and Harrison Came Bob Lafferty and Morrison. All the Freshmen drawn together B3 ' the signal of the peace-pipe To the levels of the campus To the great, gray granite hill-top. And they stood there on the campus With their Horace and their Ponies Then the Sophmores rose before them With their water and their paint-brush Wildly glaring at the Freshmen On their faces looks of triumph In their hearts the feuds of ages