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110 THE ATHENAEUM Now swiftly Luna sails in open sky To hide her countenance in yonder cloud, Violently weeping, for she dares not try To bid Autumn farewell; she is too proud To let herself be seen lamenting long and loud. “Farewell, farewell to Autumn and farewell!” Reverberates incessantly in air. What earthly power could this expression quell? This essence era tic, this deep despair? This voice stupendous sounding everywhere? Alas! Ceres no longer can defy The king of seasons and his frosty airs. Scarce Autumn leaves when Winter drawing nigh With Morpheus, makes Ceres once more barren and dry. —0. E. Jackson, ’28. THE ATHENAEUM Go thou, take wings and go Where hearts are gayly singing To sighing mortals here below— Tell them of our upspringing. Sing of our noble name, And scatter far our fame. She went, A maiden won by tricky love Or flirting phrase, and raised By words high as the skies above. She trusted him, that praised With Sinon’s tongue, as she obeyed And tried his fame to tell— He turned and from his bond he fled, And credulous, the maiden fell. —Gardy Farley, Ac. ’25. AUTUMN SIN It rains, The oak tree drops its golden leaves And I my sparkling line of thought; For who can think in sunshine mood With window near To see and hear It rain, rain, rain? Who would show ingratitude And turn a heedless ear To the music of November’s falling rain? Its drolling song I cannot slight, For to me it brings along An hour of perfect peace; I close my book, incline my head, And on its airs I drift. My eyes are steady, deep, and large, And gazing on the wall, Your picture is there And from it fall Memories of you—dreams of my child hood days. My eyes closed, my book dropped to the floor; When I awoke ‘twas four o’clock, The rain had stopped, And I had cut my class. But mother, When the marks come home And you learn of the class I’ve cut, Remember ‘twas no un-godly cut, No rash departure from thy ways, No vile premeditated wrong; Just remember that it rained, I thought of you, And then I dreamed. —Martin W. Hawkins, ’25.