Oakwood Collegiate Institute - Oracle Yearbook (Toronto Ontario, Canada)

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Caesar: By Pollux, you can wait a while, can't you 'F We should do a little more. What's the English for facio '? Virgil: Do or make. That's past time too, isn't it? You add ed if the e isn't already there, d0n't you 'F That would be doed. It doesnt look quite right, but let's leave it, anyway. Caesar: l've worked out the next part . Wellington Britons' leader afterwards war Spania's to Gaul adventured and supplements hav- ing been missed, battle there doed. My vocabulary is increasing, isn't THE OAKWOOD ORACLE supplementum or auxilium, and missed from mitto. Virgil: I'm sure we should put in an article some place. You know they always use something like that. The isn't it? I suppose it can go in before battle Caesar: All right iwritingl. Been niissed and the battle there doed. What comes next? Virgil: By Hercules, I haven't time for any more now. That's pretty good for one sentence. We can do the rest another cycle. Vale Caesar. itr? I rememlier supplements from -Adapted. Qlihening Across the twlight sky D r ' The stars have trailed their light Like little fairy Chariots Hastening on their flight. And every place where they have stopped A star gleams forth its light, llecause the fairy charioteers 1 Were hastening through the night. H. S. K., VB. K, if Q4 f 7 t Hier-1 LIGHTS' ' ,V 5 1 0, ci f W f' fi XT f -ef Q?-5 Of? ' SEAGER W . X Lf 'XQJJQFQQSQQ 12405 Wim .1 tt1iTQ'fi9f' GRAHAM V pgfxcoqif Ml ' 21 ' cunrmulrj 1 l N ,Q HYK' L-:Fm-46-aw , wus gglfi-' CHANT r-nf-s ' 'fi aurtsn 5 A7 -2 2' ' WOQD fuunmnilinumrunning 4 ' ' ' comme A -Q ,ufxnwwf , ,, .iq N fa L-mx 5' 11 I 'J 5: . A 1' ij' ' --f Mi s ' is ff NN f'1uLQOoN EY QUAE E5T? M'vEJgsrbRo.c-if 'Q I :Mike 1 ' LONG FENNER Page Ni11c'fc'c'u

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THE OAKWOOD ORACLE Zbnnietnurk in Babes Scene-Elysian Fields, Hades. Dramatis Personae: Virgil and Caesar doing their homework, which is to translate Latin into linglish prose. Virgil: I'mbulus usores laniboni sorstin. tThis is conversational Latin but the writer can't keep it up very intelligentlyj. Castor and Pollux, what a language this Eng- lish is! Such awful words they have and no cases practically. But since those English have overrun Hades Latin is becoming old- iashioned. Caesar: What gets my unicorn is to have those barbarians lord it oyer us. It's enough to get old Demosthenes going on another set of Philippics. Well, these things having been pointed out above, let's :Tet down to business. This prose looks p1'etty stiff. Do you think old Cicero will catch on if we work together? Virgil: Oh, I don't think so. Weil change the odd word, here and there. But for goodness sake let's get to work. Look at all the time we've wasted and I promised to have a game of knuckle-bones with Mark Antony. Let's see the prose. Caesar: Here it is treadingb- Wellingtonus ilhim dux Britan- iiorum, post bellam Hispaniae. This first sentence isn't too bad. I think l can translate it right off. You have the grammar and dictionary, haven't you 7 I have the tablets and a stylus. Well, here goes lwritingj - Wellingtonus leader llritons. Virgil: That'stnot it: there's no 4-nrling on Wellingtonus, it's just Wellington. Caesar: Oh, yes: and there's a funny little mark to show Britons is geiiitive. lIriton's, isn't it? How do you translate post bellum His- paniae 'Z llflflf' h'l'fjllfl'f'Il Virgil: Let's see. Bellum is war, and post is after or afterwards. They like complicated words so let's use afterwards: wards probably strengthens after anyway. Os- tracize it all, they don't give proper names here. I think Hispania is Spania or something like that. So far we've got: Wellington, leader Britons' tdoes the comma at the top of Britons go before or after the s '?J Caesar: It's plural when it comes after, I think. Virgil: Wellington leader Britons afterwards war Spania's. Caesar: You can change the words around a bit, can't you '? It would make it more vivid. Let's put afterwards Spania's war. I'm sure you can. Virgil: That makes Britons' and Spania's very near together. Let's change Britons' instead. Caesar: That will be-Welling- ton Britons' leader afterwards war Spania's. Yes, that doesn't sound so monotonous. . Virgil: I suppose we'd better put the main verb next. They always put it in a weird place where there is no emphasis. Let's see, it's advenit. Caesar: Advenit - tliere's an English ve1'b like that. I saw it the other day. Let's use it instead of looking everything up. What was it now? Oh, yes-adventure. Virgil: It's past time. They add a d for past time, don't they? twritingy Afterwards war Spania's adventured. Caesar: Isn't this a bore '? Virgil: Let's finish this clause. We have to make about four sen- tences out of one of ours anyway. Let's stop at the end of this. l haven't time for any more at pre- sent. This makes me quite thirsty. Have you a goblet of nectar handy by any chance '?

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rm: OAKWOOD ORACLE Zllibe Qbracls I came into the Temple of the Oracle And unto the High Priest 1 made question: Oh thou, to whom the curtain of the future is as nought, What, when the years have spent their might, will be my fate '? Where in the sun shall be my place 'T Or shall the heavy shadows envelop me for aye? l waited long, and heavy were my thoughts, And anxious was my soul within me .... Then the answer came, deep and impressive as the truth itself- I shall not, my son, reveal to thee, for thou art young, And thy heart halteth at the gate of life, All that the slow years hold for thee. llut hearken to my words, for they are wise, And, hearkening, shalt thou heed, I pray for thee. Work! for the mark of Idleness is on thy brow, And that will bring thee poverty, unless thou brush it from thee as a brand that burns. Cast from thy life Irreverence, that stands before thee, making mock. Hen 'gainst thy masters hast thy tongue been laid, And all they taught thee hast thou lightly held. Turn not night into day, and seek not, constantly, the halls of Dance, So that thy cheek be pale with weariness, When the bright sun doth shine upon a world that needeth thee. The very best thou hast is scarce enough To halt the moving finger that doth write thy fate. lleware, lest in oblivion thou sinkest deep I- But look upon the reverse of thy fate! Oh I can see more plainly now! Ah, yes, thy manhood doth assert itself! lirect thou standest, and thine arms are bare, And thou dost labour with an earnest brow, And all men give thee honour due. For thou hast seen with anxious eye The error of thy youthful daysg hast cast aside e'er 'twas too late The folly of a careless heart, And hast become by thine own will and act ,X Man indeed. ADl'lLAIDI'l IC. li. STl'lI'lNlIl'IllG, SA. 71 fix Q My Z ,if if T QE? 717: N f e at 2 ff J N P' K' . 5 M 'Tax !0 X 4 , F gf fd - V, ! f its ,.f f , BVOLU' TI ON liflflf Tll'I'Ilt.lf