Campion Jesuit High School - Knight Yearbook (Prairie du Chien, WI)

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Trees I think that 1 shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth ' s sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. JOYCE KILMER adopted Campion as his alma mater because of his close associations with it faculty and student body and his admiration for the Jesuit system of education. It was at Campion that he learned to know the Catholic educational system. He wrote in a letter to Rever- end James J. Daly, S.J. : I do not say that every gradu- ate of a Catholic college is a scholar and a gentleman. But I do say that it is easier to get a real education and lead a decent life at a Catholic college than at a secular college. Indeed, I do believe that the young man who is not harmed morally, intellectually, and physically by four years at secular college, has most cruelly overworked his Guardian Angel.

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t«- -i-»f r • ■-, ' » i -f ♦ . ' ii« ' - - ■.- ' .v»» - : : . eiA Tt« -s«ir.jf N (iw ■v-i ' ; : j j maMt fsneaast tu These are the trees ivhich are believed to have been Joyce Kilmer ' s inspiration for his poem TREES. During his summer vacations at Campion zvhile visiting his warm friend and literary critic, Reverend James J. Daly, S. J., Kilmer meditated many of the thoughts -n-hich later flozcered into his beautiful verse.