An Ode to Harvard Author:Witter Bynner Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE POOL O it is pleasant, on the naked brink, Idly awhile of happy things to think! A man like me set out that curve of trees, A man like me cut out thes... more »e tiles of stone, And out of other stones and trees were grown Under his hand those towers in the breeze. And only over yonder sunny wall There is a heart would answer should I call. And when I've done with thinking and would Be safe and free, I need but bend, but dive, And with a rush my body is alive, And there is no one but myself again. My image upside-down is at my feet, So is life doubly mine and doubly sweet. 'SO KIND YOU ARE' You have an eye more warmly brown Than autumn days away from town, But will not let me speak my mind, So kind you are and so unkind. You have a cheek as white and red As apple-blossoms overhead, Just where the sunshine strikes me blind, So kind you are and so unkind. You have a voice with all the moods Of twilights and of solitudes, But light to leave me as the wind, So kind you are and so unkind. You have, however far I be, A trick of coming near to me,— Though out of sight, not out of mind, So kind you are and so unkind. The way would seem not half so soon To reach your heart as reach the moon, Yet it's a way I'll surely find— So kind you are and so unkind. HEY-DAY Come and go a-berrying, Would you wiser be! Come and learn that everything Younger is than we— We who almost dared to think In our wearying There were no more springs to drink, No more pails to swing! We were dusty with our books. Come and let us go Out among the lyric brooks, Where the verses grow, Where the world is one delight Made of many a song Lasting till the nod of night, Lovely all day long, Till the smallest glimmering nook Holds the m...« less