Madera Union High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Madera, CA)

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20 HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL. purify, not destroy; and sorrow is in all the undiscovered lands. “Hail, thou goddess sage and holy! Hail, divinest melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight; And therefore to our weaker view O’erlaid with black,staid Wisdom’s hue.”’ Bur sorrow reigns supreme in no one’s life; heart-easing mirth and joy we will always worship with our strongest love. The one who would break down the forbid- den barriers in life’s journey must have resolve. Resolve is what makes a man manliest—not puny resolve, not crude determination, not errant purpose, but that strong and indefatig- able will which treads down the heaving frost- lands of winter, which kindles his eye and brain with a proud pulse-beat toward the un- attainable will make men giants. It made Na- poleon an emperor of kings, Bacon a fathomer of nature, Byron a tutor of passion and the martyrs masters of death. If we perchance should stray into ungenial lands—‘‘life has no landmarks before us’’—our efforts will not be all useless and ‘‘the pleasure of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.’’ And at last when life has no more fields to show; when we are weary and long for rest and our old time ardor is gone, there is the past. ‘What a wide world that makes of the past a great and gorgeous, a rich and holy world; your fancy fills it up artist-like; the darkness is mellowed off into soft shades, the bright spots are veiled in the sweet atmosphere of distance, and fancy and memory together make up a rich dreamland of the past. And in a future and distant day may we say, without regret, to some little school child: ‘‘My paths are in the fields I know, But thine in undiscovered lands.’ Bicycle Repairing 274) Supplies. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED E. L. HALL, = D Street, Madera. “se PUA DE res pithery a a i Fresh Beet Cakes and Pies. A Full Line of Fresh Groceries D STREET, MADERA. VPVVVVVSBVVVSSVTSVSSVVSSVSVTSVVBWVVSVVV VT VTAA TA Cc. C. MCDOUGALL B. G. MCDOUGALL G. B. MCDOUGALL MOC Crugall GHt04., Architects 2 : 5 SAN FRANCISCO AND BAKERSFIELD, CAL. Sen Saws wen a es a ea

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— toa eS g Utbey. ny f eligave: YS tha ue have anger aces a ny who t to the hea tonly to —- its ofa NG cot: stration it also CESS aS a ease, ans in al known init to at It. oy fs lier HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL. 19 may have been unduly insistent, yet his share was nevertheless necessary and important. Policemen, firemen, guards and private sol- diers have gone to early graves, ‘“‘unwept, un- honored and unsung,’ because of deeds they have done, impelled by heroic impulses, that were heroic none the less because they were unknown; and over such graves we could say with Gray: “Some village Hampden that with dauntless breast, The little -tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country’s blood.” There are mothers in our country whose lives are one long, heroic struggle, the no- bility of which isin proportion to their love. Their lives are full of ‘‘little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.’ There are teachers and preachers, men and women of every vocation and occupation in life, whose struggles and sacrifices, disappoint- ments and achievements are worthy of record, and deserving of positions on the pinnacle of fame. “Out of school life into life’s school’’ we each must go, half regretful, half glad, and perchance among our number may be gradu- ated some ‘‘youth to Fortune and to Fame un- known,’’ whose burning desires for the unat- tained, transformed to heroism when the occa- sion demands, may cause the name of that youth to be recorded on the list of immortal heroes. At least we can be men and women of dar- ing, who flinch from no danger and shrink at no difficulty, and not, when moral heroism is required, be veriest cowards. May we never lack courage to stand for the right in the face of criticisms. “Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.” “Then let ws pray that come it may, As come it will for a that, That sense and worth o’er aw the earth May bear the gree, and a’ that. For @ that and a’ that, It’s coming yet for wv that, Thatman toman the warld o’er Shall brothers be for a’ that. Co Be IKey, OS. ————— go. Undiscovered Lands. ae My paths are in the fields I know, But thine in undiscovered lands. ae oS —Tennyson. al A little child sat dreaming in the doorway of its home; on the one hand, smiling in the sun, lay the green meadowland alive with flut- tering butterflies; on the other stood the sweet-scented orchard, re-echoing with the songs of happy birds; and all around the child was an impassable hedgerow of roses. He longed for the day when he could pass beyond the roses and see what lay at the end of the lane—surely something most wonderful. And one day he passed out of the peaceful garden, entered joyously the long lane that led to the mysterious land, and returned no more. He had gone to seek for undiscovered lands. A lad was toiling in a dreary field near by, and as he followed the deep furrow up and down in his happy mind he mused: ‘‘Some day when I am grown I shall sail over the sea; I shall explore the uttermost parts of the earth and the whole world shall be my home.’’ The lad grew older; he still followed the furrow up and down and still looked forward to the day when he should be a pilgrim in distant lands. Time passed; the youth grew old but he still delayed and dreamed, and, although behind his plow all his life, he sailed over the oceans, he scaled the Alps, and walked through the streets of the world’s great cities. He, too, had traveled in unknown lands. We who are voung rejoice that we have the opportunity to search in the fields most pleas- ant tous. Just outside our schoolroom door fair sciences, art and letters stand smiling, ready to welcome us; their richest treasures are at our command. ‘The one most devoted at the shrine of each goddess will win the longest prize. We will not seek alone; hand in hand we will stray with Sorrow through dark forests through which can be seen no glimpse of the fair lands we seek. But Sorrow is the friend of Earth’s children; she will chasten, not break;

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