Yale Literary Magazine/Volume 85/Issue 759/Campus Evening Hymn
CAMPUS EVENING HYMN.
All the Yard is filled with song,
Dying voices sound along
Yonder ivied walls.
Strains of many years ago
Still prolong themselves as though
Old-time students strolling go
Still amid the halls.
Hark! the footfalls of the past!
Many a graduate at last
Comes back to the fold.
Time has peopled with its throngs
All the walks—and Yale belongs
To the vanished, while their songs
Echo as of old.
Old-time student choristers,
Arm in arm, sing ancient airs
Strolling down the grass;
Many a call and many a shout
From the past still ring about,
Windows fall and lights go out,
Shadows greet and pass.
So may we in other years
Compensate life's long arrears
When age overwhelms,
So in other, distant days
Come again those lyric ways,
Spirits, hither turn our gaze,
Haunting still the elms.
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