A Williams Anthology: A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910Priv. print., 1910 - 221 pages |
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Page 13 - OPPORTUNITY MASTER of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait. Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palace — soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate! If sleeping, wake — if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate, . And they who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe...
Page 13 - MASTER of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait. Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palace — soon or late I knock, unbidden, once at every gate! If sleeping, wake — if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate, And they who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe Save death; but those who doubt or hesitate, Condemned to failure, penury, and woe, Seek me in vain...
Page 14 - Old Autumn, thou art here ! Upon the earth And in the heavens the signs of death are hung ; For o'er the earth's brown breast stalks pale decay, And 'mong the lowering clouds the wild winds wail, And sighing sadly, shout the solemn dirge O'er Summer's fairest flowers, all faded now. The Winter God, descending from the skies, Has reached the mountain tops, and decked their brows With glittering frosty crowns, and breathed his breath Among the trumpet pines, that herald forth His coming.
Page 184 - WILLIAM HOUSE AND FAMILY COME all kind friends, both far and near, Come listen to me and you shall hear — It's of a family and their fate, All about them I will relate. They once did live at Edgerton, They once did live at Muskegon, From there they went to Chicago, Which proved their fatal overthrow.
Page 183 - She went out to play with two little girls That were near about her age. She was not gone but a little while When they heard her playmates call — Her friends hastened there to save the child, But, alas, she was dead and gone. Those little girls will not forget The day little Hattie died, For she was with them when she fell in a fit, While playing by their side. She was her parents...
Page 14 - ... the mountain tops, and decked their brows With glittering frosty crowns, and breathed his breath Among the trumpet pines, that herald forth His coming. Before the driving blast The mountain oak bows down his hoary head, And flings his withered locks to the rough gales That fiercely roar among his branches bare, Uplifted to the dark, unpitying heavens. The skies have put their mourning garments on, And hung their funeral drapery on the clouds. Dead nature soon will wear her shroud of snow, And...
Page 184 - In Eight Michigan Cavalry This boy he did enlist; His life was almost despaired of, On account of numerous fits, Caused by drinking water poisoned — Effects cannot outgrow; In northern Alabama, I hear, There came this dreadful blow.
Page 187 - And now kind friends, what I have wrote, I hope you will pass o'er, » And not criticise as some have done, Hitherto herebefore...
Page 3 - The snows of winter crown them with a crystal [crown, And the silver clouds of summer round them [cling; The Autumn's scarlet mantel flows in richness [down ; And they revel in the garniture of Spring.
Page 182 - All those which speak of being killed, died or drowned, are truthful songs; others are "more truth than poetry." They are all composed by the author. I was born in Plainfield, and lived there until I was ten years of age. Then my parents moved to Algoma, where they have lived until the present day, and I live near them, one mile west of Edgerton.