Our college rhymes,--how light they seem, <br />Like little ghosts of love's young dream <br />That led our boyish hearts away <br />From lectures and from books, to stray <br />By flowery mead and flowing stream! <br /> <br />There's nothing here, in form or theme, <br />Of thought sublime or art supreme: <br />We would not have the critic weigh <br />Our college rhymes. <br /> <br />Yet if, perchance, a slender beam <br />Of feeling's glow or fancy's gleam <br />Still lingers in the lines we lay <br />At Alma Mater's feet today, <br />The touch of Nature may redeem <br />Our college rhymes.<br /><br />Henry Van Dyke<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-rondeau-of-college-rhymes/
