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* POETRY
Edited by Walter Evans Kidd
(The following weekly features are printed in the Emerald as indicated:
Tuesday, Lemmy's Ghost, Society; Wednesday, Art, Drama, Music; Thursday,
Poetry: Friday, World of Sports; Saturday, Library Browsivgs, Contributions
for any of these columns may be left in the Emerald Box at the circulation
desk in the University Library, or at the Editor’s office.)
Wet Gold
Big God—
you who every morning
pull a bucket of
red-hot gold—out from
behind the world
and
throw it recklessly
over the
sleepy earth.
Generous God—
to splash the
rich warm gilt
on greyish mountain peaks _
—even drip a little
on tiny pools
(small spatters that dance)
You laugh—
then blow
the star-dust across the earth
—blow the silver dust of
night
onto the other side
(always— you blow it
’round and ’round)
A Glorious God
who, from the east
drowns the :"
land with
a blinding golden glory
and then
blazes a dazzling
smear of molden gold
across the
silken-hissing sea.
—ELEANOR BUKTCHAELL, ’27
Wet Gold
(To P. S. and E. B.)
Buttercups lift
round songs of dew
to a small girl
with
dripping
curls
of elfin phospherescenee. . . .
.. r—••
Cricket-cool scents,
redolent of daffodils, $
fluctuate in the breeze;
above the rain-clean sun,
at the mist, sagging edge of dawn,
a lark curves higher—higher
spinning his rapture
to rainbow gold.
—DICK SNAVE RETLAW.
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Wet Gold
The dark, wet street
Flows on into the dusk. . .
A river of moody water
That swirls in whirlpools
And eddies
At the crossroads. . .
Where windows shine
Out into the night
Little cascades
Of rippling gold
Splash J'W~
Down ^
To lie in bright pools j
On the ebony stream 4
That flows on to mingle
With the darker waters WT
^ of the night. . . / " » j • '
—PHILIPPA SHERMAN.
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Seat at the Edge of Dawn y
The silken blue skein of the ocean
Is flung j
On the loom of the shores, west to east * ^
The gold thread to weave in between ?
Is spun from the first rays of dawn. /’
The shuttles are the white sea pigeons
Holding in their beaks the thread of light ^
Dipping dawn, soaring up,
Skimming the curl of a wave, over and under
Weaving a pattern of shimmering fancy
.To cloth the slim body
Of Neptune’s daughter.
To shield her from Apollo’s gaze.
—ellen g. McClellan.
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Moody Weather ~ y/
The fields lie heavy, black and sodden.
The fence rows with their bare and stunted bushes
Twist and turn, go on and on, and end
1 Where they began. r
The weedy roadsides have a wide and vacant stare
W hile the wet roads wind aimlessly here and there
And lose themselves in the gray fog
The gray air is filled with vapors and with odors
rrom the earth
As from one great miasmic bog.
Sullen gray clouds crowd and push and fill the »kv
And surge above the helpless earth.
The helpless earth, praying for relief from the
Interminable grayness
Is answered by rain, rain, rain.
—GERTRUDE F. COLLINS.
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ART PANELS AND RUGS
PLACED ON EXHIBITION
Storey and Thater Works
To Go to Los Angeles
A collection of decorative panels
and hooked rugs is on exhibition
now in the gallery of the film arts
building and will remain only until
j the remainder of the week,
i They are the work of two women,
Mary Louise Thater and Dorothea
| Storey who have their studio in
Albany, A. Y., and they are on
their way south, after travelling un
der the auspices of the art museums
i of the country, from the east.
! The hooked rugs, which are the
| work of Hiss Storey, are twenty
[five in number, and differ in size,
! shape, color and idea. Several are
| long, narrow panels, similar to tap
j estries in that they reveal a group
of medieval court figures. These
latter are a decidedly novel idea
[ I in the realm of rugs, and hold the
! interest because of their quaint
1: ness. One rug is a copy of the
! chart to Captain Kidd’s hidden
, treasure chest, showing by comical
figures and strange landmarks the
location of that famous wealth.
The other rugs are similar to the
Chiiu\-e rugs in their design, but
their -colors are warm shades of tan,
orange, green and russet. They
vary .in shape, some being neardy
square4 and others round liko the
eolonuti rag rugs.
The pictures, or art panels as
they are called, are purely decora
tive. They are oil, water pastels
and there are fifteen of them alto
gether. They are vivid, colorful
pictures of birds and flowers, some j
of them resembling Chinese prints, '
with a combination of color and do- j
sign pleasing to the eye.
The pictures are for sale, and a !
few of the rugs, but for the larger i
rugs orders must be placed. The I
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will be replaced by the Cizck ex
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children, in March.
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