Poem: “A dusk was come” by Viktoria Vakser ’26
A dusk was come; the earth a sullen quiet Had raised to protest Night’s impending gloom, And pulled the tired land to noiseless riot, Forestalling to the most the coming doom. And animals, whose shadows claimed the night, And glimpsèd were before they turned to naught, Shrank from the chilling silence, and in fright, Cried…