When God made the Lady of Alpha Pi Delta,
He summoned His angel messengers and
He commanded them to go through all the

star-strewn vicissitudes of space and gather all there was of beauty,
of brightness and sweetness, of enchantment and glamour,
and when they returned and laid the golden harvest at His feet.
He began in their wondering presence the work of fashioning the Lady of Alpha Pi Delta.

He wrought with the golden gleam of the stars,
with the changing colors of the rainbow's hues
and the pallid silver of the moon.
He wrought with the jewel that swoons within the heart of the beautiful amethyst,
and the snow that gleams on the lily's petal.

Then, glancing down deep into His own bosom,
He took of the love that gleamed there like crystals beneath the sun-kissed waves of a summer sea,
and thrilling that love into the form

He had fashioned, all heaven veiled its face, for lo,

he had wrought the Lovely Lady of Alpha Pi Delta.             
                           
   Adapted from Southern Lady by Florence King