WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1941.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
Dulce et Decorum---Variations
(Editor's note: This was one of the poems that tied for third place in the Carruth poetry contest.)
BY MARJORIE HOUSTON
Eavesdropping on a brooding in the wind,
I struck up conversation with a ghost.
These are his words:
These are his words:
The first month I was dead
I suffered awful dearth.
My hungers were not fed,
and I fought the earth.
The second month I lay
in lessening pain.
but I feared the casing clay
and the soaking rain.
The third month froze me in
and chilled my fever.
I no longer feared to begin
being forever.
And yet let me not be misunderstood.
Let no man say forever does not creep.
Count on the fingers of your right hand aeons.
Count on the left, light years to that red star.
Multiply by phantasms, add the future,
divide by human intelligence,
give me the score. Or should we query Einstein;
when is the fourth dimension? Just last fall
I was alive, but I cannot remember at all
except I remember one spring hour then.
Cast up from childhood on May's first high tide,
I woke the sand with an awakening,
excited cry that made the weathered ring
of old Pan's worshippers draw me inside.
There, while they piped with tremolo and glide
in wrinkled gravity a hymn to spring,
I learned a secret yet a certain thing
and felt a savage yet a sorry pride.
To my delight words geysered from the ground
into a form I set them, then as thin
as a high, perfect flute call—and as round—
they merged into the chorus masculine.
I scooped the moment up in nets of sound
and sang it loudly till the pipes joined in.
I was happy and am not unhappy now.
Do not let me be misunderstood.
If I once thought the moon like a silver sickle,
cutting a shining arc through a blossoming peach
tree.
and through the mist-green of a weeping willow, mist-green again in the water,
I do not now remember this at all, except in words, empty of meaning. Maintaining no psychology of caste, I have effected armistice with earth.
The span between dead kings and redder roses has its own democratic legislation.
I sleep, my head between a buffalo's horns.
Across the world they lie with masstodons.
And where the ancient fields, autumnally mowed for harvest of seed and alternate harvest of bone
receive the farmer, fallen where he plowed and waiting his bitterest winter all alone,
some rich dust stirs in the dust of every furrow and warms for a moment the austere chill of the bed,
and in every hollow where blind moles quiver and burrow,
the hateless earth binds the gaping wounds of the dead.
It is less so with us. I sleep, my feet upon a buffalo's shanks, and wake to brood, neither glad nor sorry to have served you knowing this:
Whitman's America blows in the dust with the buffalo—
Whitman's chantings drift in the winds, and hesitant shadows.
old singers of ancient songs, greet him: "Hail,
comrade!
Join us in fellowship, we, the perplexed with our brothers."
They need not fear. This way or that all men achieve brotherhood.
Whitman's America blows in the dust with the buffalo.
This is the nation of streamline and cogwheel and atom.
The joyous strains have yielded to clash and confusion.
Whitman's America blows in the dust.
Whitman's America blows in the dust. Yet this way or that in the long run all men are fraternal.
We clasp hands alive—or we grapple and mingle in death.
Whitman's America blows in the dust; well, more dust will be blowing.
University Will Offer Summer CAA
Earl D. Hay, professor of mechanical engineering and head of the C. A.A. program here, requests that all persons interested in primary and secondary flying work this summer see him at his office in Marvin hall.
While final approval has not been received for the continuation of the course, it is expected that it will be given.
The C.A.A. appropriation bill for $25,000,000 for the fiscal year has been passed in the House of Representatives, and has been approved by the Senate Appropriation committee.
Hay has received letters from both Senator Clyde W. Reed and Senator Arthur Capper, both of Kansas, stating that they are in favor of continuing the program.
While the appropriation is 12 million dollars under that of last year, it is 7 million dollars over the President's estimated figure.
Over 4,500 specimens are available for taxidermy study in Dyche Museum.
Enjoys K. U.'s Newest Dance Spot — Upstairs
Haworth Hall houses an extensive collection of practically all of the recognized varieties of igneous and sedimentary rocks, and in addition there are shown various types of ores.
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Program for Seventy-fifth
Thursday, June
4pm : Registration at Memorial Union.
7:30 p.m.: Faculty Recital, School of Fine Arts, Hoch Auditorium.
8:15 p.m.: Coronado Entrada and Kansas Cavalcade, Memorial Stadium.
Friday, June 6
3 p.m.: Presentation E. H. S. Bailey Plaque, Bailey Chemical Laboratories.
4 p.m.: Dedication Reopening of Dyche Museum, Dr. Alexander Wetmore, speaker.
30 p.m.: Sunset Barbecue, Memorial Stadium.
5:30 p.m.: Sunset Barbecue, Memorial Stadium.
8:15 p.m.: Coronado Entrada and Kansas Cavalcade, Memorial Stadium.
Saturday. June 7
Saturday, June 7
8:30-12 a.m.: University Exposition.
8:00-12 a.m.: University Exposition.
9:00-11 a.m.: Symposium.
1:30-5 p.m.: University Exposition.
2:00-4 p.m.: Symposium.
4:00-5:00 p.m.: School of Fine Arts Commencement Recital, Hoch
5:45 p.m.: 75th Anniversary Dinner, Union.
9:00 p.m.: University Reception, Union.
9:30 p.m.: Alumni Senior Reunion Dance.
Sunday, June 8
11:00 a.m.: Community Church Service, Hoch Auditorium Featuring a Cappella choir.
Sunday, June 8
8:30 a.m.: Class breakfasts.
7:00 p.m.: Baccalaureate Exercises, the Reverend Frederic C. Lawrence,
Leaker.
12:30 p.m.: Class Luncheons.
2:00-5:00 p.m.: University Exposition.
2:15 p.m.: University Memorial Service.
3:00 p.m.: Outstanding Speaker.
4:00 p.m.: Band Concert, Fowler Grove.
4:00 p.m.: Reunions of Classes and Groups
The Summer University Daily Kansan is the official publication of the Summer Session.
Monday, June 9
7:15 a.m.: Senior Breakfast.
9:00-12 a.m.: University Exposition.
9:45 a.m.: Annual Alumni Meeting.
11:00 a.m.: Alumni Address.
12:15 p.m.: 75th Anniversary Luncheon.
2:00-5:00 p.m.: University Exposition.
3:30-4:30 p.m.: Symposium.
7:00 p.m.: Commencement.
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