College of William and Mary - Colonial Echo Yearbook (Williamsburg, VA)

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' M-mi M Cl)c 1911 Colonial €rljo s; Into file jmrrr light. iv taii-ci ' day. Where Hope and Love shut out the sorditl strife For gain auil gold, which weakens with its elay, The social structure which our age calls life : Into that realm where eyes may see, where ears .May hear the truths eternal of the years: Adowa the ])eaceful gardens, where, of old. Poet and minstrel, priest and j)rophet wrought In the cool aisles each new and perfect thought. And saw the hook of Life and Death unfold. Sweet music sounded there, which solter fell Than rose leaves on the grave of innocence. Voices that lighter lay than in the d dl The violets, wliei-e each night the fairies dance. Methouglit the mellowed voices of the past Tried. ■■ uaff the living watei-s while they last. Tomorrow s flood may bear thee on again, Whii-led in the eddies of its bootless strife; Forget what seems, and drink of what is life. The struggle in the surf, the sinking scream — And then the Silence: thiukest thou, oil man. That this is Life . ' Tis but a lireak, a dream, The passing from the Dee]i unto the Deep. The Ri er s moan is but a broken cord That flutters loose upon the sounding board : Give to the greedy Stream its pound of tiesh. But leave tlie Gotl-breathed spii-it free to soar Above the hungry uunv, the ruthless roar, To di ' ink the eternal music of the spheres. Alan Fred English.

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Ct)e 1911 Colonial €ct)o Board of Visitors Robert iM. Iluglu ' s, Esq Norfolk, Va. Hon. James N. 8tul)l)s Woods Cross Roads, Va. Hou. ' I ' lins. II. liarncs Suffolk, Va. Hon. Will. M. Ellis Slia v.sville, Va. VV. C. L. Taliaferro, Esq Hampton, Va. W. D. Smith, Esq Gate City, Va. Hon. Manly H. Barnes Providence Forge, Va. James Robert Jordan, Escj Smithfield, Va. Hou. Jo.seph H. Chitwood Roanoke, Va. Hon. Jos. i l. Hurt Blaekstone, Va. Hon. J. D. Egglestoii, Sujit. of Public Instruction Richmond, Va. In the Garden of the Soul Apart I stood, at eveu, by the lake. And watched the wafted leaves from over head Fluttering a moment, fall at length to flake The breeze — blown ripples, as they came and fled. A moment these bowed at the giver ' s feet. Then lightly rolled, in whisperiug retreat. Bearing each frail bark toward the setting sun. And as 1 gazed, I felt the nameless Power Speaking, low-voiced, in lake and tree and flower. Like woodland melodies, where brooklets ruu. Strange was its cadence to my hardened ear. Dulled with the tumult of a grasping age ; Scarcely ' twas heard, yet wondrous sweet to hear. As lilts the lark, freed frinn eontining cage, So sang my soul, to feel the harness fall Which dragged it down, to cringe and creep and crawl As springs the silk-entomlied butterfly From its dark cell into the summer light, Seeking the sun which dissipates its night. So soared my fancy, free its wings to ply. 14

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ifeSfeJfe ' iS iS Cl)c 1911 Colonial €c[}o m mm-im H. H. Fletcher A. R. Koontz 16