Santa Barbara High School - Olive and Gold Yearbook (Santa Barbara, CA)

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SION. Thou old Franciscan Mission on the hill, Uerlooking yet this city by the sea. What worlds of thought could'st thou this clay set free? ' XYhat stories kept in bondage by thy will? 1 What haunting tales thy untold his- tory fill? VX'hat songs once sung, heard now by none but thee. Of life, of death. of passion-purity. That lie Within thy heart of stone so still? I look upon thy century walls of gray And muse that thou, the work of human hand, llast triumphed o'er thy builders. Long have they Passed to the great beyond. Grim testament, Guarding' their secrets, locked in stony cell, Safe in the keeping of thy own sweet, silent spell. OLIVE ARNF, 'l2. A SONNET: THE OLD MISSION, Qld Mission with thy walls so strong and gray, What strange eventful years hath passed thee by! Mid canyons deep, neath sunny mountains high, Upon thy hill, beside the sparkling bay , From whose bright shores doth stretch a lovely vale Of Howers gay, with knolls and vistas green, VX'ith laughing, crystal streams and blue marine- Relate to me thy old historic tale! Upon the sea I've Watched the widespread sail Of Spanish galleon, oft of old have seen The silent Indian, as with graceful stride, He swiftly crossed the shady, wooded dale, To hunt the deer in still and dark ravine- All this hath been, to pass with time and tide. ROBERT BENSON, '12, A SONNET: ON THE OLD MIS-

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The OLIVE and OOLD. SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA. MAY, 1912. VOLUME 6, NUMBER 2 PUBLISHED BY THE SENIOR CLASS. Commencement Number, Thirty-five Cents

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