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Vol.IX. H.
RICHMOND, VA., JANUARY, 1884.
No.4.
EDITORS.-Mu Sigma Rho, 0. L. STEARNES,E. B. POLLARD; Philologian, TRIBilLE, J. H. PEARCY.
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BUSINESS
MANAGER.-R.
C. HunnARD.
MARITANA. I.
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The summer days had passed by, Maritana, With all their d~ws anr1 1owers and warmth and glow; The autumn time had him,~her varied banner O'er all the trees and crouching shrubs below, Maritana; Bright-tinted leaves fell, carpeting the earth So lately green with grass ; the chattering bark Alone of squirrels cheered the woods; the mirth Of summer-singing birds I did not mark, Maritana. II.
Evening had fallen, and the rosiness Of sunset lit up all the Occident; One lone great star was following, with less Of light, the orb of day now nearly spent, Maritana; Sweet quiet reigned, and ere the ruddy gloaming Had darkened into dusk, I strayed into The dying woods, and in my earelees roaming, Close by a streamlet's bank, I came to you, Maritana.
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III.
Beneath a bower of vines, where hung the 'mellow And purple grape, there, half-reclining, where The light of yonder West could meet its fellow Within your glorious dark-gray eyes, aye, there, Maritana,