Rockford College - Recensio / Cupola Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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' Z.O. ' where the rosy-bosom d Hours. Fair Venus ' train, appear, Disclose the long-expecting flowers And wake the purple year! The Attic warbler pours her throat Responsive to the cuckoo ' s note. The untaught harmony of Spring: While, whispering pleasure as they fly, Cool Zephrys thro ' the clear blue sky Their gather d fragrance fling. ' Still is the toiling hand of Care; The panting herds repose: Yet hark, how thro ' the peopled air The busy murmur glows! The insect-youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring And float amid the liquid noon: Some lightly o ' er the current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. ' — Gray

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Glooms of the live oaks, beautiful-braided and woven With intricate shades of the vines that myriad-cloven Chamber the forks of the multiform boughs,- () braided dusks of the oak and shades of the vine. While the riotous noon-day sun of the J une day long did shine y Ye held me fast in your heart and I held you fast in mine. — Lanier