Central High School - Snips and Cuts Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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Filip 1Hirnir E WAKE at morn, 'tis warm, 'tis fair, We greet with happiness the fragrant air, Our thoughts are light, our hearts are gay, We are intoxicated with the brightness of the day Our friends we find as gay as we, All are ready for a day of glee, We have cast away our work, all care, To enjoy a day of pleasure rare. The time soon comes, the time to start, From the city, to the country, to depart. Today we leave her with her doleful attire, With all her sultriness, her heat so direg Yet the sun reveals, as we pursue our way Its warmth to our crowd, so happy, so gay, But the thoughts of the river where we shall stay, Dismisses the fear of a sultry day. With songs so merry, and yells so gay, The time very quickly glides away, And soon from the river's brink we perceive, The refreshing water which does so relieve, One who a long hot journey has made, One who on her banks has often played, And we welcome her breezes, so cool and mild, The breezes on which the river has smiled. Overhill, through wood, in sylvan glades, We busy ourselves making glorious raids, Then when the sun directly o'er our head does shine It comes to our mind, 'tis time to dine. From the wagons we unload all that's good to eat And the feast we have, no one could beat, 2:4

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think kindly of us. Although We misbehaved and proba- bly did not show them the proper respect, We will always remember how kind and patient they were to us. KATE L. STRATTON, Historian, '09, A fl. 2 . Mx E 22

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All are ready for the meal placed there, And enjoy much this dinner so rare. Our dinner is o'er, we are roaming again, Among the hills, and around the river's bend, Now in open field, or among stately pine, Now in a valley, or in tangled vine, Alas! in the west we see the setting sun, But we know there is in store, yet some fun For we think of the happy and glorious ride home- Such a rest after our country roam. While the sun is gently lowering from view, In one more pleasure we indulge before bidding adieu 'Tis on the river in a boat with a jolly crowd Who make the woods resound with echoes loud, And as the water glitters with its golden hue And the clouds gliding by bring the sun in view, A feeling of greatest happiness is in each heart Though the time is quite near to depart. Alas! We are on our homeward ride, I The objects around, darkness soon will hideg It is now that the songs begin to ring, As the boys and girls begin to sing, Through the rolling country all around, Echoing and re-echoing till we reach the town, Which, in the early morn, was left behind, To spend a day in having a merry time. L. M. C. -'09, sfo