Wednesday, July 25, 2007

College Days



THESE college days of jollity and mirth


How pleasurable are they and how serene,


Just tinged with sorrow enough to welcome in


With heartier joy all wassail that gives birth


To bliss that lifts the spirit from the earth!


Shall not this book and the signatures herein


Of men whose friendship I am glad to win,


Years hence recall this time that knows no dearth


Of ready jests and sunshine of sweet lays


And vintages of Xeres and the Rhine?


Ah! the remembrance of these happy days,


The music and the laughter and the wit,


The cups that smile with glimmering of sweet wine,


Age shall grow mellow with thought of it.




by Richard Hovey

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