Peabody Demonstration School - Volunteer Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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Pale moon leaning to the northern sky- Slender-leaning, music-silver- Makes a whirely mystic promise With a diamond star for surety. A street light bright In thick warm night of a mid-south railroad town, Patient-panting, red eyes glowing, great night plunger, hot breath blowing- is stopped for water. Arc light falls white And in its sight Black pansies grow. I want a sweep of dark blue water, Silky ruffled and flowered sparsely With broken stars-to rest my eyes On liquid Soft mobility. Dark Cedars are death-shadowy in deep lush green that sweeps brown-parted to red and time-soft walls. And the brown dust is a sweeping curve to a slender, pillared gallery, where ghosts in crinolines and white goatees are still gracious-welcoming. What's the dim heart-stirring of children playing at twilight out of doors? of front doors open on yellow squares in grey lavender, and shirt-sleeved men calling back and forth where they read papers on their own porch steps in spring gloaming? Rain in the wind earthy wind-alive with frogs and spring. The stars are warm and dim, fading-portently- Rain to-morrow. lt's good to live to-night. JULIA RAMSEY

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iliutturne Footsteps that scrape the pavement come under the roof-grow deeper on and steps go past up to another world, twenty feet away. Swift rain is singing through the screen To dash sifted handfuls against the pane-black as a square shadow on coaldust. Icy rain that tapped the glass Like bony fingers, grey and gaunt As cold and loneliness Fell finally away And left the night To a generous wind, As formless sweeping, and as beautiful As love. questioning- on archly rising-noted chirp the baby frogs are curious, yet sereneg that's the charm of musicg serenity and spring. Willows don't leaf out in spring- the stair Their thread-like branches catch and hold Scraps of pale cloud-stuff From the wings of the little-girl spring. With creative wind and rain The misty scraps solidify To slender points of bright green That will droop delicately On long hot summer afternoons. Like a perfect chord of music the pink of a sea shell's lining fills all the conscious world with breath-stopped harmony.

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Senior Prophecy Tiine: june j, 1931. Place: In a woody. Characterr: Dick Polkj witch, Diana Richmond. SCENE I Setting: Before the curtains. A hay if .fitting under a tree rnuring. DICK: It's line to be out of school. No more worry about lessons that haven't been done, but it's tough missing the old friends and knowing I won't see them all together again. I wonder what's going to happen to them all. It's a crazy idea to think about it. QYawnr, .rtretchef and lier hack. In a few rninutef he morerj CWitch enterfj pauxer over the ho-y,' then poker him with a rtick.D DICK: Oh, g'wan away. CWitch poker hiin again.D Oh! Qfity upj WITCH: Ah-ha! Come, I will take you to my Cavern and you shall see the fate of your class-mates. Follow me! Cftage darkenx .fuddenbf a.r hoy riser to follow her.D SCENE II Setting: Curtainr part rhowing wood scene with hoy and witch revealed dimly hy a fire under a huge cauldron. Witch .rtirf cauldron niurnhling. Boy if reated near her. In the Jmoke over the cauldron variour ineinherc of the clam appear in a light which glows there. WVITCHZ Double, double, toil and trouble, Fire burn and cauldron bubble. CDavid Atkinron and Katharine Weir appear in hathing .ruit.r.D DAVID: How does it feel to be Olympic breast-stroke champ, Kat? KATHARINE: Swell! You certainly broke all records for the distance swim. CMaJon Burhy enters carrying a cainera.D MAsoN: That's fine! Hold it! Now a big smile. DICK: Kat and David Olympic swimmers! They're good at it now. QMargf jane Peyton dreffed in shorts, and Bill Bruer in Jlackx and .furpenderrj MARY JANE: You may be the best dancer on Broadway, but I don't have to think so: I'm your partner. BILL: Well, you may be Broadway's darling but you're a pain in the foot to me. Let's try that step over. , DICK: As they were rated the best dancers in the class, they have gone on dancing through life. CNancy Orr in pujumef and coat and jack Hopton in jirernank .fuit.D NANCY: Oh, thank you so much! You have no idea how important a person you have rescued. The Hicksville News couldn't be published without me. My public will appreciate this. 23