Great Falls High School - Roundup Yearbook (Great Falls, MT)

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R O U NDUP ' hose heart does not swell with pride and beat faster when it hears America or the Star Spangled Banner played? What is it that arouses our soldiers and urges them to the front? Miat is it that induces them to leave their wives and children and those they love? What is it that spurs them on to give th eir lives for their country? Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man tn the frunt rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem will excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse. Oh. friends, respond to this wonderful art of music, with its meaning so deep, its voice so melodious, its charm so soothing. Of all the arts beneath the hea en That man has found or God has given. None draws the soul so sweet away, As music ' s melting, mystic lay; Slight emblem of the bliss above, It soothes the spirit all to love. —EDNA BARNES. ' U. (22)

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ROUNDUP liold us are liroken and vc realize the freedom nf the snul. and a con- fidence in the purposes of our Creator is inspired. ( iod has gi en us many gifts, but the fairest and most glorious gift of all is music. Bulwer has said, Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit that never dies. It wanders perturbedly through the halls and galleries of memory and is often heard again, distinct anrl li -ing, as when it first dis])laced the wavelets of the air. Music has been called the fourth material want of our nature — first, food: then raiment, then shelter, then music. This would in- deed be a dreary world without music to (luicken our steps and make our hearts lighter. Ricard has said. It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to lo e. .Musical history re -eals many happy marriages: e. g., Robert and Clara Schumann, T-lvard and Nina Grieg, Felix and Cecile Mendelssohn and many others. Musical couples are, in fact, er - happy couples when they have in them the traits of character which under any other conditions would result in a happy marriage. The music has ery little to do with the question, except that it gi es the marriages a common intellectual and artistic bond which may bring a kind of delight unknown to couples wh(.) have no such mutual interest. Music in the home brings one of the greatest joys of life to e ery member of the household. The father will stay at home from t iwn any night to hear his little daughter play or sing. It draws the mem- bers of the family nearer to one another and binds them together by a golden chain not easily broken. It murmurs in the ear of the child and the child sleei)s. Its tones are companions of his dreams — they are the world in which he lives. When we know we are nearing the end of life ' s journey our thoughts turn to God, our Father, and to Heaven. Only soft strains, only a few sweet words, but could we thiid of a sweeter way to ex- ])ress our last thoughts? When the faint hope was gone to those who remained on the Titanic, the eight musicians lined U]) on tli and quietly the leader waxed his staff, hands o -er the ice laden water floated the strains hymns ever written : Nearer, my God, to Thee ! Nearer to Thee ! F ' en though it be a cross That raiseth me. Still all my song shall he Nearer, my God to Thee, Nearer to Thee. To their i)laying more than fifteen hundred souls passed from life. ■k. Then so lemnly to instrumer Its and me of the sv veetest

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Freedom Hence loathed buuks ( )f Physics and dry Latin written By ancient authors long since dead, ' Mongst ancient ruin, and war, and trendiling lool I ind out some unused room. And there remain, in blackest gloom. lUit come, thou ranch home, dear and free. And let me with the home folks be. To hear the birds forever sing And never hear the school bells ring. To see the sun set in the west, I love to watch it go to rest Reyond the plain so wide and free That looks so big to little me, . nd all day long to be out doors, Away from books and other bores That make one sad and worried ever To ride abroad, whate ' er the weather. (3n winter days to go off skating. For school and books not ever waiting. But going when I wish to go . cross the fields of ice and snow. When summer comes to hunt for flowers. By wayside brooks and shady bowers ; To go out wading in the streams ( )r in the shade to dream day-dreams; To dances and picnics we ' d sometimes go. And oft on the river we ' d slowly row, To while away the sunny hours — . nd these would all be happy days Wliere that old I ' hysics never stays. —ELSIE f ' i,ETCHER. ' li