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

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' Tis the noon of autumn s glow, When a soft and purple mist Like a vaporous amethyst, Or an air-dissolved star Mingling light and fragrance, far From the curved horizon ' s bound To the point of heaven ' s profound: Fills the overflowing sky; And the plains that silent lie Underneath; the leaves unsodden Where the infant Frost has trodden Ji ith his morning-winged feet Whose bright print is gleaming yet; And the red and golden vines Piercing with their trellised lines The rough, dark-skirted wilderness; The dun and bladed grass no less, Pointing from this hoary tower In the windless air; the flower Glimmering at my feet ' — Shelley

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Come when the rains Have glazed the snow and clothed the trees with ice, (Chile the slanting sun of February pours Into the bowers a Hood of light. Look! the massy trunks Are cased in the pure crystal; each light spray, Nodding and twinkling in the breath of heaven Is studded with its trembling -water-drops. That glimmer with an amethystine light. — Bryant