Rockford College - Recensio / Cupola Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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Qi . . .iQ P . Wim. Q li Glass Rap jfestihal PAGEANT-A SUMMER SUNSET Here hath been dawning another blue Day, Think, wilt thou let it slip useless away? Out of eternity this new day was born, Into eternity at night must return. -Thomas Carlyle. PRELUDE It is the end of summer's day and 'fall the leaves that lay burned in the heat of the consuming day, sink inert to the ground, waiting till the welcome evening dew shall come and revive them. SCENE I The little yellow primroses dawn on our view, their faces turned toward the golden Sun before whom they kneel in adoration. Then in response to his glowing warmth, they burst into a joyous dance. Slowly the Sun disappears behind the hill, and the Primroses grow quieter and still more quiet as their beloved god leaves them. SCENE H Her mist of primroses Within her breast Twillghl hath folded up, and o'er the west, Seeking remoter valleys long hath gone, Not yet hath come her sister of the dawn. Silence and Coolneff now the earth enfold. 77 SCENE IH On the top of the tallest tree, the wood-thrush pours out its roundelay of parting to the passing day. SCENE VI M: , '6 The little lives that lie Deep hid in grass join in a long-drawn sigh More softly still, SCENE V I Hfewelf of glittering grfevz, long Mifff of gold, Haffey of nfbulouy Jilzw wil the height, And shake in tremors through the shadowy nightf' E Y 13 Y W V' --4 1-:fc o-- ---Q

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E --4 me o-- I -I-Q Q, E SCENE VI Heard through the stillness, as in whispered words, The wandering God-guided wings of Birdy? SCENE VII , 'M'land unheard through the blue The falling of innumerable Dew, Lifts with grey fingers all the leaves that lay Burned in the heat of the consuming day.', SCENE VIII. FINALE Now the glorious Colors of the setting sun appear on our horizon-violet, rose, Hame, pink, yellow-their rays streaming down to all the woodland life. Soon these Colors dissolve from our View and are transformed into the Rose of Paradise. 'AO splendor of God, through which I saw the high triumph of the true king- dom, give to me power to tell how I saw it! Light, is thereabove which makes the Creator visible to that creature which has its peace only in seeing Him, and it spreads in circular shape so far that its circumference would be too large a g'rdle for the sun. Its whole appearance is made of a ray reliected from the summit of the First lVIoving Heaven, which from it takes its life and potency. And as a hill mirrors itself in water at its base, as if to see itself adorned, when it is rich with verdure and with flowers, so, above the light, round and round about, on more than a thousands seats, I saw mirrored, as they rose, all that of us have made return on high. And if the lowest row gather within itself so great a light, how vast is the spread of this rose in its outer- most leavesl My sight lost not itself in the breadth and in the height, but took in all the quantity and the quality of that joy. There near and far nor add nor take away, for where God governs without intermediary the natural law is of no relevancyfl -Dante's Paradiso.H The yellow of this sempiternal Rose of Paradise catches up and glorifies the yellow of the summer evening. Within the profound and clear subsistence of the lofty Light appeared to me three circles of three Colors and of one dimension, and one seemed reflected by the other, as Iris by Iris, and the third seemed fire, which from the one and from the other is equally breathed forthf, DANCERS I. DAY ................................. .... I rene Bartlett Children, hlarion Lewis, Sallie Parmele NIusic-Ich Liebe Dich 2. GREEN LEAVES: Aline Bartholomew, Lucy-Ellen Brown, Kfartha Hinebaugh, Jeannette Ingwersen, Bernice Johnson, Hazel Kliners, Elizabeth hlorrison, Ada Pf'itzenmeyer,Estle Russell, Beulah Sam- mons. NIusiC-Visioning Hours 14 I.. ETP-gb , ...Q J.:.Q QT. .-4 E