DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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A Bachelor Reverie I. h Twas an evening in midWinter: All Outdoor htwas cold and Jrear. III. A picture that carried me hack again I forgot the strain of my business life To' a time of long agoa And that I ever was a marge When I sat me down in my cozy den A face that brought up memories bright I was simply a happy student For atemoke. With no one near. As I smokecl alone in silence. In the wreathing cloud each curl Of joys that I usecl to know. And I saw the room grow dimmer With an awful lot of gooa times, And I let myself forget Built on the student plan. With hills that would grow big. Seemed to frame the shadow pictuge All hut the haze of student Jays And with always the same 01:1 question Of the features of a girl. ,' Iv. When the highest aim before me Was. In Spring. to make the team. And the greatest thing to fret me- That small to some might seem- Was the ever illusive. teasing spritea With smile or frown divine. The same small. yet large. question mark. That 01:1 School Case of mine. That is round about me yet. Woulcl I pass in Dutch or Trig? V Even the frat. anJ all the fellows. Feasts and rough-house By the score. Gave way there before her picture As nought ever Aid Before. Anal lived in the same 011.1 feelinge Whose atrength can not he toM-e Of the rare old. fair oldt College days! The happy Jays of old. E. N.SOS