Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SOLVITUR ACRIS HIEMS, by CHARLES EDMUND MERRILL JR.


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SOLVITUR ACRIS HIEMS, by                    
First Line: Now april from her brimming cup
Last Line: You're young.
Subject(s): Yale University


Now April from her brimming cup
Hath sprinkled all the dusty town;
Once more the open cars run up
And down.

Now from his hoard the Freshman brings
Glad raiment, and superbly throws
His old, unhappy, cast-off things
To Mose.

And now delivered from the gym
The clamant coach invokes the eight,
With vigor, that I may not im-
itate.

For sentiments so warmly dressed,
So clothed with prefix and with affix,
Are not conveniently expressed
In Sapphics.

Deserted now, the fire that gave
A friendly glow to Temple Bar
Lies smouldering, like a Judges' Cave
Cigar.

And let by Pan's alluring pipe,
You hail at the Savinian Rock
His goat, the classic prototype
Of bock.

And celebrate -- we did, I know,
When daily themes began to irk us --
The rites of that libidino-
-sus hircus.

In vain: can piety recall
The flying years? Howe'er we boast,
The fatal sheepskin waits for all
(almost).

Labuntur anni; yes, and then
Of all that fame and fortune seek
Thrice happy he who earns his ten
Per week.

-- Ah! happy Sestius, you smile,
Nor need I wish my song unsung;
You've guessed my moral: Go it while
You're young.





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