Saint Martins University - Samarco Yearbook (Lacey, WA)

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A STERN REMINDER ON OUR STROLLS THAT LIFE IS MERELY TRANSIENT I Y I I I I I I I I I I .,. I I I I I I I I I I I I I I . I I I I I I I :S ,I

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BELOW THE DAM, WHERE PENT UP WATERS MOCK THE RESTRICTIONS OF AGE-XVORN BOUNDS

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By Acqua Fredda's cloister wall I pause to feel the mountain breeze, And watch the shadows eastward fall From immemorial cypress trees: While mirrored peaks of stainless snow Turn crimson 'neath the farther shore, And here and there the sunset glow Threads diamonds on a dripping oar. But now a tremor breaks the spell, And stirs to life the languid air: It is the convent's vesper bell, The plaintive call to evening prayer, That prayer which rises like a sigh From every sorrow-laden breast, When twilight dims the garish sky, And day is dying in thepwest. I-Iow sweet and clear, ho-w soft and low Those vesper orisons are sung In Rome's grand speech of long ago, Forever old, forever young! So full is life of hate and greed, So vain the world's poor tinseled show, What wonder that some souls have need To flee from all its sin and woe? I would not join them, yet, in truth, I feel, in leaving them at prayer, That something p-recious of my youth, Long lost to me is treasured there. JOHN L. STODDARD i AT y f THE MoNAsTERY or I ACQUA FREDDA