Mount Holyoke College - Llamarada Yearbook (South Hadley, MA)

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AGAIN, AGAIN! Who here's afraid to gawk at lilacs? W ho won't stand up and praise the moon? Who doubts that skies still ache for sky- larks And waves are lace upon the dune? But flowering grave-dust, flowerlike snow- dust. But tinkling dew, but fun of hay. But soothing buzz and scent of sawdust Have all been seen, been said—we say. BANALITY, our saint, our silly: The sun's your adverb, named Again : You wake us with it willy-nilly And westward wait to tuck us in. Vie. nurse, are flouted when we flout you. Kven to shock you is cliche'. 0 inescapable and dowdy! O gold uniqueness every flay! Vi lio’s new enough, most now . most youngest Enough to eye you most again? Who’ll love the rose that love wore long- est, A et say it fresher than quick rain? I’ll see. I ll say. I'll find the word. Ml earth must lilt. then, willy-nilly And vibrate one rich triple-chord Gf August, wine, and waterlily. Peter Yiereck. The First Morning