Though red was rather more in line
With Stanford's cardinal hue,
The sun had bleached it down to cream:
A switch was over-due.
While black may usually lack
Red's gleam, where red is rust
The darker hue outshines, and leaves
The lighter in the dust.
The pedestals that raise the globes
Which pierce the campus nights
Get small consideration, but
Deserve a bit, by rights.
And so, though no one's done a poll,
Few would, I think, contest
That, since their former shade was dull,
The change is for the best.
Originally published in SUL News Notes, June 2, 1995.
c 1995 Fleabonnet Press for the author.