Monterey High School - El Susurro Yearbook (Monterey, CA)

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EL SUSURRO VII. Farewell ! and the golden light rent through the darkness Vanished the moonbeams and fire-flies and stars, While one rosy shaft like a beckoning finger Pointed a way to the ocean afar. VIII. Then spoke the law Q'tis the law of all nature NVe must go onward, nor tarry and waitj, And through the great silence the mountains prophetic Murmured aloud of my journey and fate. IX. Through the dim spaces came Hoating their voices, Voices impellingly murmuring to me: You must go onward. O sweet child of nature! You must go onward-to wed with the sea! X.. Thus, as the sun in its mad Hush of glory Finally answered the heralding dawn, oiif of my grotto, all splashing and plashing, Spilling the sunlight, I sparkled along. Xl. Fate was a-calling me, like to all natureg Fate must be answered: one dares not to Fleeg So through the sunshine and silvery shower Dash I, and splash I, to wed with the seal 24

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EL SUSURRO The River By HEl.EN S. FALKNER I. Child of the dew drops. daughters of nature,- Such is my origin, such is my birth- Nnrsed by the breezes, and played with by sunbeams, Cherished and loved in the bosom of earth. II. Start I. a little spring far in the mountains, Guarded by them both the day and the night: Bubbling and sparkling within their grim stillness. Chznttering and gurgling within their great might. In. i Wooed by the night wind, the stars and the moonbeams Laughed I so gleefully turning away. Mine is a purpose. a force does compel me: .-Xh! 'tis not mine but to linger and stay! IV. Came a white night. when the lady of heaven Tipped all the mountains and forests with pearl. Out of their vastness a hundred lights Hitted, Fire-flies and moonbeams and stars in a whirl. V. This was my night, and as such did I take it, Swirling with moonbeams and Hecked with starlight All the earth crying. Farewell on the morrow : All the skies summoned, to bid me good night. Vl. Thus we danced on till the portals of heaven. lflung wide by Aurora to greet the bright day, Toppled apart, and the rose-light all tumbling Flooded the east with its glorious ray. 23

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