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

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Washington Hall close up. ' J t ' Coliseum ' But stay! these xmlLi -these ivy cfad arcades- ' These mouidenncj plinths- these sad and Btackened shafts - •These iia£ue entablatures-the crumbdng frieze - ' These shattered comices-this urecfi-this ruin- ' These stones-afas! these gray stones-are they aff :1[( of the framed and the colossal (eft •Bif the corrosive Hours to ' fate and me? • ipt all ' -the ' Echoes answer me- not ad! ' Frophetic- sounds and bud, arise forever ' From us, and from alT ' J uin, unto the unse, . ' ! melody from ' Memnon to the Sun. •l ' e rule the hearts of mightiest nun-zve rule ' Ji ' ith a despotic sway of all giant minds. ■We are not impotent -zve pallid stones. ' Pipt all our power isgone-not all ourfame- •?(pt all the magic of our high renown- ' Mot all the mysteries that in us lie- •?(pt all the memories that hang upon S And cling around about us as a garment, Clothing us in a robe of more thang glory. z S ' Edgar allien ' Foe

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USMA ARCHIVES The old mess hall facade.

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The arched gate to the world. Strong enough to never yiel ZlCysses I am a part ofaU that I have met; O et aCC e?(perience is an arch zvherethrough QUams that untraveCed worCcC whose margin fades J or ever and for ever lohen I move. And this gray spirit yearning in desire ofoiiozv knozuCedge [i a sinking star, ' Beyond the utmost hound of human thought- To strive, toseelii to find, and not to yieCd. Lord Mfred Tennyson Always a warrior.