Hendrix College - Troubadour Yearbook (Conway, AR)

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TROUBADOUR 1963 BILL STROUD Editor IAMIE BIG-HAM Managing Editor LOUISE CARY Assistant Editor HARRY SHANNON Business Manager THE HURLEY COMPANY o CAMDEN

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Fonswonn grea castles, before the noble family and amid the crowding convocation of gaping retainers, the troubadour of old sang his songs of high deeds and courtly love. His themes were great, for milord, and gracious, for milady. And there was the usual buffoonery, for the laughter of all. When the bows andu laughter were over, he took his lyre and left. Beyond th'e eyes of men, along the pilgrimage routes or under a nameless lonely sky, another song rose from his lips in ' , loyous, personal accents. And here all songs were born. Troubadour - the word means a finder. Perhaps the troubadour's art is lost today. We make mighty choruses but c t f' d anno! in our own voices. With iaded ears we hear the anthems of common praise and miss the sound of one self's singing. We face a choice of the comfortably communal or the unintelligibly individual, of self or world - knowing that the loss of either will be fatal. 0 In the halls of t