Berea High School - Prima Luce Yearbook (Berea, NC)

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THE SEVEN WISE MEN were variously named even in Greece. The following translations of a Grecian doggerel gives one version. “I’ll tell the names and sayings and the places of then hirth Of the seven great ancient Sages, so renowned on Grecian earth. The I Indian Cleobulus said, ‘The man was still the best’ ; The spartan Chilo, ‘Know thyself,’ a heaven-born phrase confessed ; Corinthian Periander taught ‘Our anger to command’ ; ‘Too much of nothing,’ Pittacus, from Mitylene’s strand ; Athenian Solon this advised, ‘Look to the end of life’ ; And Bias from Priene showed ‘Bad men are most rife’; Milesian Thales urged that ‘None should e’er a surety he’ ; Few were these words, but, if you look, you’ll much in little see. ’ — Collin’s Ancient Classics. IN departing, Old Berea, we spontaneously recall Sophocles’ famous chorus in OEdepus at Colunus, describing the beauties of the country: Here ever and aye , through the greenest vale, Gush the wailing notes of the Nightingale, From her home where the dark-hued ivy weaves With the grove of the god a night of leaves; And the vines blossom out from the lonely glade, And the suns of the summer are dim in the shade, And the storms of the winter have never a breeze That can shiver a leaf from the charmed trees. And wandering there forever, the fountains are at play, And Cephissus feeds his river from their sweet urns day by day; The river knows no dearth, Adown the vale the lapsing waters glide, And the pure rain of that pellucid tide Calls the rife beauty from heart of earth.

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