University of Wisconsin Stout - Tower Yearbook (Menomonie, WI)

Page 15 text:

Come v the north wlnd ' i masonry. Out of an unseen quarry •-• Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curio bis white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so sal age, nought cares be lor number or proportion. And when bis hours are numbered, and the world Is all his own, retiring, as be were not, Leaves, when the sun appears, astonished Art To mimic in tlou structures, stone b) stone. Built in an age, the mad wind ' s night-WOtk, The frolic architecture of the snou. — Ralph Waldo ' -.met son

Page 14 text:

Very old art t h u oods; And the buds that break Out of the briar ' s boughs, When March winds wake, So old with their beaut) are — () ), HO an km ni s Through u hat u lid centuries R t es back the rose. Very old are the brooks} And the rills that rise When snow sleeps cold beneath The azure skies Sing such a history ( )l • mne and Their every drop n dv u ISl As Solomon. — Walter ), la Ware '

Page 16 text:

Afi ;; ; • go a thousand ti and dcath . of kings, And yet recalls the very hour — ' Twas noon by yonder village i And on the la- t blue noon in May — The wind came briskly nf this way, Crisping the brook road; Then. ■ dou n it load Of pine-seen!-., and shook Usti Two petals from tin wild-n — Thomas Bailey Aid rich