Hoquiam High School - Hesperian Yearbook (Hoquiam, WA)

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7-lie 7720014 is The moon is up, the stars are bright, The wind is fresh and free! 'VVelre out to seek for gold tonight Across the silver sea! The World was growing gray and old, Break out the sails again! lYe're out to seek a Realm of Gold Beyond the Spanish lWain. Vxleire sick of all the cringing knees, The courtly smile and liesl God, let thy singing Channel breeze Lighten our hearts and eyesl Let love no more be bought and sold For earthly loss or gain, VVe're out to seek an Age of Gold Beyond the Spanish Klain. Beyond the light of far Cathay, Beyond all mortal dreams, Beyond the reach of night and day Our EI Dorado gleams, Revealing-as the skies unfold- A star Without a stain, The Glory of the Gates of Gold Beyondthe Spanish Nlain. TH 5 -Jlfred Noyes ' 1- ' f Y i

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. . . and formidable as it looks, the old fortress there wasn't stolid enough to keep Mor- gan, that most daring of pirates, from sacking the beautiful city it guarded. But shrewd as he was, the citizens of Panama outwitted him by Whitewashing their beloved gold altar, and he passed up as Worthless the most Valuable piece of property in the city. like liquid em- eralds laps at the roots of the palm-lined b e a e h e These are the south seas and Central America. Why work when- -A 'sl-nv is reached by a cactus-bordered road thru the mountains And the monkeys have no tails in Zamboanga - wonder if they do in Curacao. At any rate, We know there are plenty of those intrig- uing animals there. -Q , v 2- Y Y 1+ -X- X

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t X . I L 1 x L i ,f 1 . ,I V 'x 'Af ' , 1 s X. x ' x CLASSES .I A - -take a bee-line south from New York bay and that's where you'll arrive - - an old world in the new, where you can follow the ocean trails of Spanish and English buccaneers four centuries old. Morgan still lurks in the shadow of King- ston's quays, Morgan, who was made Governor of Jamaica be- cause he waged such successful warfare on Spanish galleons laden with Peruvian gold. Bridle paths through bamboo forests and jaunts through the old Spanish town provide a subtle atmos- phere which will take you worlds away from the North.