Page 40 - 1920 February - To Dragma

TO DRAG MA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 123

Are there not some members of the A O P that this appeal w i l l
touch? Perhaps i t w i l l go closer home i f I remind you that Dean
Ashley was the brother of Jessie Ashley, who died last year. Many
of you will remember what the fraternity owed to her both in
money and services. Before she died she knew of this proposed
memorial, and was enthusiastic i n her pleasure over the idea.

THE WEST

B Y DOUGLAS MALLOCK, Omega

Men look to the East for the dawning things—
For the light of a rising sun;
But they look to the West, the Crimson West
For the things that are done, are done.

The eastward sun is a new-made hope
From the dark of the night distilled.
But the westward sun is a sunset sun,
The sign of a hope fulfilled.

So out of the East they have always come—
The cradle that saw the birth
O f a l l the heart-warm hopes of men,
O f a l l the hopes of earth.

For out o f the East a Christ arose, dream
And out of the East there gleamed
The dearest dream and the clearest
That ever prophet dreamed.

And into the waiting West they go
With the dream child of the East,
A n d find the hopes they hoped of o l d
A hundred-fold increased.

For there in the East we dreamed the dreams
O f the things we hoped to do;
Here in the West, the Crimson West,
The dreams of the East come true.