United States Military Academy West Point - Howitzer Yearbook (West Point, NY)

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I I Administration Building ROM its blue rase the rose of evening drops; Upon the Hudson its petals float away. The hills all blue with distance hide their tops In the dim silence jailing on the grey. Twi.xt battlement and shoulder of the plain, Tinged now with red and now with purple rare, A tower rears its head as if in pain, . And seems to soar aloft to breathe the air. It hides and yet commands a portcullis — The conduit to the country ' s Service, where The Nation ' s youths ( trained to know the call is) Go forth to honor country and to dare. 4

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I I I n Cullum Hall I ERE Time has placed an hundred guarded treasures Culled rom the galleries of hoary years. And neither music nor its strident measures Can put away from you those aging fears. Once you had danced and smiled in derogation. Replacing stolen days by those to coine. Forgetting in your youthful calculation What marks the total of your destined sum. Do not begrudge the first vague color painted Across the sky by flimsy wisps of dawn. Nor mark the fall of night as though it tainted The source from which its sustenance is draivn. Here are memorials and dim impressions That show you glorious life to your oivn mind ; Do not forget in wayivard retrogressions That age, though seeming ruthless, can be kind. And when your spirit bows in pale surrender Before the dream ivhose nature none may say. Some withered leaves of inemory, remember. Will bear you company along the way. i