Purcell High School - Cavalier Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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THAN UILLITY Hundreds of m1les eastward filght eastward sees the slopes of Ohlo and Kentucky the broad fiats of Pennsylvania and West V1rg1n1as green luxury two rlvers meet They become one m a swxrl lmmense ln volume and flow 1n a twlsted Channel carved some long t1me ago You have seen the elbow as xt crooks 1n the v1ew from Eden Park on a summer afternoon Not beautmful powerful maybe Mottle muddmed treacher ous but qu1et The r1ver IQ forever quiet Qulet 1n the summer heat when a steamer churns agamst the current and canoes and other craft r1de the two rollmg V arms of surgmg water that gradually laps the shorelme Also qulet II flood Qu1et now slave to harnesses men nave put upon It for vyater for power for travel I-Iarnessed9 Harnesses break But only look at the wxde avenue of water lymg sheeted under the after noon s l1ght Its course IS a study ln uglmess and abundant beauty mostly beauty The beauty because It IS farther away IS less easy to dlscover than the ugllness but you can find It wlth a search The uglmess 15 fiung ln your face fn the graceless sweep of the C1nc1nnat1 waterfront The beauty IS for a qulet walk on a sunllt bank or IH the breeze of a rmver raft where you can forget that the water IS not only muddy but laden Wlth dlsease and the offal of great C1t1CS It IS best to have your enchantment from a dlstance untxl the esthetlc sense of man arbltrates wlth hxs love of mdustrlal com emence Stay your dlstance and regard the r1ver mormng It IS ve1led tn e1ther mlst or fog forget 1f you can that factory smoke IS responslble for much of the bad v1s1b1l1ty and a steamer bound downstream wlth cargo plods lts way If your lIU3g1l'l3t1OI1 can surmount the sh mek of fre1ght tra1n whlstles and the unromantxc slght of the frelghts themselves you may GVISIOH some long dead Indran sllnkmg to the stream crude hshlme 1n hand 1n hope of breakfast B equally sure that the ltlnerant bum you may see today Wlth h1s own hook and l1ne w1ll salvage no better than a m1nnow 1f the sturdy conservatlon wardens do not catch hlm first In the afternoon r1ver you wnll see xetiected sun and not much beauty The charms of the r1ver l1ke those of pOIlt1CldIlS and berouged old women do not stand the glare any too well You w1ll see barges and reallze that the rxver IS a great beast of burden But you vull wonder why the conservatlomsts so anuous for the welfare of the fish have not troubled to ask the mdustr1al1sts who pour polsons 1nto the water to please stop In the evemng you may match a sunset over the Kentucky h1lls wlth its blood red soul glddv and evanescent m the rlver There wxll be a great tree sllhouetted m trlbute to lts beauty and ln the nlght there wlll be dancmg on a steamer and presently the complete and terrlble sllence of a monster at repose You wxll find thls and whatever It IS m you to find 1n the normal r1ver the Ohlo I O I C . v Y i . . . . . . , . Y . . . . ' , , I I Y , , ' 4 I ' . 1 A 1 ' , w - A 5 r u ' ' ' f ' ' t lf , ' . . . . . . Y . , . . . . Y 1 T. . . . . v ' ' , 1 , ' ' r ' - K 7 . . . , . ' , , , , , 4 4 I 4 ' - . . . Y . . . v , 4 , . .1 nf urn x

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XXII NOW 100D IDB And now good bye to comz zdes dear Who joyously have Worked wzth us And played vuzth us thzouglrout the ye We bzd adle u And now good by e to hallowed halls VI here ve have slaved so happily Yer stzll a vozce wzthzn us Calls Us back to you And now good bye to pleasant hours In vvzsdorn laden atrnosphere VVhen learnmfi never seemed to sour Twas eve new And now good bye to roll and stzzfe On Held of sport But now we turn To the grzm battleheld of hte Thzs day we rue And 1 ow good bye to de xr Purcell Vi here four long lappy ye :rs we spent Now every year to 5 ou vvzll tell That We u ere true LARRN. Mom Am 31 IQ7 AA VV'