Esse Quam Videri
ESSEntially the same
sQUAMations of bricks
proVIDE RImmed pathways
over the entire campus:
sQUAMations of bricks
proVIDE RImmed pathways
over the entire campus:
Your charm is intoxicating,
getting older and ever young.
Regardless of the latest styles
the students come from many miles away
for years that pass as if a day.
April comes with verdant lace
in midst of Polk and McCorkle place.
How enjoy this abundant charm?
Yes, its hard to be romantic while
your classes run you frantic.
Timeless runs the relay race.
Thank God that by His grace we come,
like homing pigeons,
if but to relive, as if still chums.
Every brick, crevice and crack,
and panorama brings me back
to the same birds, the same squirrels.
How this place envelops
in a lover's firm embrace.
Marinating generations at the meeting
place.
Even so, the envelopes and phone calls
come:
Are you still fond? Fond-due.
Come back to me without exams and
books.
Take the time you can to walk and look.
Yet you may not relive, so be inclined to
give.
getting older and ever young.
Regardless of the latest styles
the students come from many miles away
for years that pass as if a day.
April comes with verdant lace
in midst of Polk and McCorkle place.
How enjoy this abundant charm?
Yes, its hard to be romantic while
your classes run you frantic.
Timeless runs the relay race.
Thank God that by His grace we come,
like homing pigeons,
if but to relive, as if still chums.
Every brick, crevice and crack,
and panorama brings me back
to the same birds, the same squirrels.
How this place envelops
in a lover's firm embrace.
Marinating generations at the meeting
place.
Even so, the envelopes and phone calls
come:
Are you still fond? Fond-due.
Come back to me without exams and
books.
Take the time you can to walk and look.
Yet you may not relive, so be inclined to
give.
Selective memory paints and
remodels.
Forget the pitchers, glasses, bottles,
the work that leisure mottles.
A robin takes a birdbath
in a puddle along the brick path --
Nothing at all to do with math.
Marvel at the growth and change.
No matter how we rearrange,
a guardian collective soul stands,
resolve as firm as Silent Sam's.
remodels.
Forget the pitchers, glasses, bottles,
the work that leisure mottles.
A robin takes a birdbath
in a puddle along the brick path --
Nothing at all to do with math.
Marvel at the growth and change.
No matter how we rearrange,
a guardian collective soul stands,
resolve as firm as Silent Sam's.
Sitting on the stone wall
in front of Manning Hall
on the front and inmost corner
facing Saunders
with Carroll across the way.
A springtime breeze
can bring you to your knees, and so
turn up your heels.
It's great how Carolina feels!
We thought we came to learn,
earn our degrees and move on.
Why then this fever burns
among all those who took their turns?
Coming back seems to make it better.
I am a forgetter.
No sooner seek the cure, the fix,
but again the arrow pricks the soul.
Alma mater, longings nursed,
only but to make them worse.
in front of Manning Hall
on the front and inmost corner
facing Saunders
with Carroll across the way.
A springtime breeze
can bring you to your knees, and so
turn up your heels.
It's great how Carolina feels!
We thought we came to learn,
earn our degrees and move on.
Why then this fever burns
among all those who took their turns?
Coming back seems to make it better.
I am a forgetter.
No sooner seek the cure, the fix,
but again the arrow pricks the soul.
Alma mater, longings nursed,
only but to make them worse.
God is in His heaven, and all is right with the world?
God is indeed in the Southern Part of Heaven
and though not all, nor even near all, is perfect with the world,
no world has been ignored, nor unknown world which may
afford
new knowledge.
God is indeed in the Southern Part of Heaven
and though not all, nor even near all, is perfect with the world,
no world has been ignored, nor unknown world which may
afford
new knowledge.
