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TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 5

Committee and our hope is that we shall be able to carry to com-
pletion the plans of development now laid out, some of them the
dearest dreams of her heart and mind, f o r Alpha Omicron Pi.

KATRINA O . MCDONALD,

r Grand President.

I

A CLIMB I N T H EDIAMOND MOUNTAINS

The sabled canopy of sheltering rock,
W i t h tiny fern-fronds clinging 'gainst its sides ;
The quivering needles of the pine tree lone;
Serrated, tow'ring peaks of sheerest grey,
Sun-gloried by a crest of golden light,
Made kind by gentle, plumy, soft'ning green,
Where trees and moss, caressing, seek the sky,
The half-dead trunks still bravely held aloft;
Crystalline shelves of quartz in varied hue;
And waterways worn down in shining routes,
a A-glistening silver-white to distant view,
A t hand the emerald home of greener frog,
Black-flecked and lovely underneath with red;
The friendly note of bird and cascade's roar;
The myriad flowers smiling 'long the path;
Stupendous silence of the sea and sky;—
And wondrous more I saw but cannot tell;
My heart went throbbing with its beauty all;—
Men call it Nature, but I call it God.

FANNIE W. BUTTERFIELD.

Songdo, Korea.