Identifier: alumnaerec18881892penn (find matches)
Title: Alumnae Recorder
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Pennsylvania Female College Alumnae Association
Subjects: Chatham University--Alumni and alumnae--Periodicals
Publisher: Pennsylvania Female College Pennsylvania College for Women
Contributing Library: Chatham University, Jennie King Mellon Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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of sand;Where Sacred Oaks, like guardians, keepTheir watch, about this land of sleep ;Their branches arching overhead,In verdant screen above their dead,And like a fringe from funeral pall,Gray mosses in soft tassels fall;Swayed by the zephyrs east and westMurmur a requiem, Requiescat! rest. O favored spot! where Nature plansAnd deftly works, with silent hands—Providing guard, and dirge, and pall;Mingling the sunbeams as they fall,In purple haze, about it all;Muffling with sand drifts every soundOf tramping feet, upon the ground,While gently moan the wild winds round.O dreaded death, we cease to weep,Our loved, in Bonaventure sleep. O, what is life? O, what is breath? And what this mystery of death? What is this love, magnetic tie, That throes, and thrills, and will not die? O what, and where, and whence, and why? Reason is mute, and none reply— Blindly we struggle, blindly go To meet our fate, if joy or woe. What then this mortal coil but clod, If we be not a part of God? W., 77-
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