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

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f Q. 3 Ulmer and I can honestly offer Trees and Main Street to GUI' Lady, and ask her to present them, as the faithful work of her poor unskilled crafts- man. to her Son. I hope to be able to do it with everything I write hereafter - and to be able to do this is to be a good poet. So wrote Kilmer to his wife about his two most famous volumes of poetry and the grateful dedication of his poetic accomplishments to the Blessed Virgin. For, once Kil- mer became a Catholic, he discov- ered in Mary the pure Mother of God, the shining inspiration not There was II little maiden In blue and silver drest, She sang to Cod in Heaven, ylllll flful iritlzin her breast. It flmulerl me with pleasure, ll pierrefl me like ll sirnrrl, llilii-u this VYUIIIUI nulirleu sung: Hy ,wul cloth magnify the Lord. So all tlze uwrlrl kneels flown to you, glllll all tliings are your tllfllj ,Voir let Il llululile rliymer sue lfefnre your IT-VSffll Ilirnue. lfrur Qiieeu. ul your ruse-petal f Iiifl me tu lure mul fliel Ant all your irnrld of lovers, Sl Cruz lore so Illllfll as I. About thy head celestial legions hover, Chanting the praise of thy humility. Kil- mer's poem aptly describes this scene from rose window of Students Chapel picturing Marys coronntion as Queen of the Angels. E-:--vi. ,.l,f-A V i '.'AlN YWEET ee! et, Aw : o g v. ,, 3, r A -V f ini' ' H l TP As i-5: :gpm f - 11' K -.iso qs ,Cuff f, Jew F 1 i fs, Aim- K V--ci Pr-in i -lo, LC: iv-f 10

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GC 99 ur Lady only for his personal life but es- pecially his poetry. In all, he Wrote six poems about her: The Singing Girl, about which one critic said In all the realm of literature there is no sweeter tribute to Our Lady 9 Annunciation, Visitation, The Rosary, A Blue Valentine, and For a Birthday, and made men- tion of her in nine others. One can only regret that he did not live longer that he might have enrich- ed literature With many more beautiful tributes to the peerless Virgin who so attracted and cap- tivated his manly love. There is one harp that any hand can play, And from its strings what harmonies arise. There is one song that any mouth ran say, A sung that lingers when all singing dies. Wihen on their beads our .Vother's children pray, Immortal music charms the grateful skies. from THE ROSARY Campus shrine to Mary built by Campion priest and student socialists. It is the scene of October daily Rosary and May devotions. 'L Late afternoon sun inflames multi-colored stained glass of choir window in the Chapel. it rf Q mr if gg. A miie., f. Ah. be , 'lik