Cranston High School - Cranstonian Yearbook (Cranston, RI)

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NWI!IIIIIIHHMIIZIIIIIHNIIIIII Q66 AMllilllllllllIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIWI E fi----A Class of 1926 CLASS MOTTO No quest no conquest CLASS OFFICERS February J une Pres: dent KINGSLEY READ HELENA HOGAN Vzce Prestdent ISABELL DANERER SYDNEY BUNKER Secretary ELSA MAERTENS WILLIAM SCHOFIELD Treasurer ERLING OWREN EDWIN FARRELL Chazrman of Executzve Commzttee MILTON PATTERSON HOWARD HODSDON Representative Student Counctl AUDREY WATSON SYDNEY BUNKER Il91 Q6 ' , N 1- ,W

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Roll on thou deep and dark blue Ocean ro Y Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee m vain Stops with the shore Tennyson in Crossing the Bar pictures death as a Journey across the sea from this earth into the hereafter and God as the Pilot who guides the ship Sunset and evening star And one clear call for mel And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea But such a tide as moving seems asleep Too full for sound and foam When that which drew from out the bound less deep Turns again home Twilight and evening bell And after that the dark' And may there be no sadness of farewell When I embark For tho from out our bourne of time and place The flood may bear me far I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crost the bar. Strange to say the best poetry of the ninteenth century was written by men of little or no experience on the ocean. With the possible exception of Falconer no sailor-poet can corn- pare with such men as Coleridge, Byron, Wordsworth, and Tennyson, who knew little of life on the water. How commonplace Falconer's Ship- wreck seems when it is contrasted with that masterpiece, the Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The ice was here, the ice was there. The ice was all around: It cracked and growled and roared and howled, - Like noises in a swound! And again when he describes the calm: 18 Day after day day after day We stuck nor breath nor motion As idle as a painted ship The twentieth century has pro duced innumerable poets and an ever increasing variety of these poems Stevenson Kipling Noyes and Maselield have preserved in poetry the traditions and superstitions that are dying out with the old time sailing vessel They have brought out the romance of the sea the eternal beauty and mysterious power that will ever draw men to it Gradually the sailor IS Winning a place as a poet Kipling and Mase field have both had experience on ships Both have written excellently of this life The restless longing and hunger for the sea and the very rhythm of the sea itself are heard in John Masefield s Sea Fever I must down to the seas again to the lonely sea and the sky And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by the wheels kick and the winds song and the white sails shaking a grey mist on the sea s face and grey dawn breaking. And And I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide wild call and a clear call that may not be denied: And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying, the flung spray and the blown spume. and the sea gulls crying. Isa And I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gulls' way and the whales' way. where the wind's like a whetted knife: And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laugh- ing fellow-rover. a quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over. And Xllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll ' 5 atlllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllll , C: ' ' ' O

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