Shields High School - Patriot Yearbook (Seymour, IN)

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' Round my Indiana homestead wave the cornfields. In the distance loom the woodlands clear and cool. Often times my thoughts revert to scenes of childhood. Where I first received my lessons, nature ' s school. But one thing there is missing in the pic- ture. Without her face it seems so incomplete. I long to see my mother in the doorway, As she stood there years ago, her boy to greet ! Many years have passed since I strolled by the river. Arm in arm with sweetheart Mary by my side. It was there I tried to tell her that I loved her, It was there I begged of her to be my bride. Long years have passed since I strolled thro ' the churchyard, She ' s sleeping there my angel Mary, dear. I loved her but she thought I didn ' t mean it, Still Id give my future were she only here. Chorus Oh, the moonlight s fair tonight along the Wabash, From the fields there comes the breath of new mown hay. Thro ' the sycamores the candle lights are gleaming. On the banks of the Wabash, far away. — Paul Dresser

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those men and women whose stories have been read with fascination and delight hy peo- ple in all quarters of the globe, to those whose tales of primitive life in Indiana and whose simple and touching poems have endeared them to children everywhere, to those w hose charming novels have given them international recog- nition, to those who have gained fame with their keen humor, to those educators and statesmen of Indiana whose life and writ- ings have inspired and influenced the vouth of to-day, to every one of our he- loved Indiana Authors, we, the Class of 1932, do lovingly dedicate this our annual. ( 31

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Edward Eggleston EDWARD EGGLESTON was born at Vevay, Indiana, in 1837. Born into an intellectual atmosphere, and bred in the Methodist faith, the youth with his studious disposition and gift for speech turned naturally to the ministry. Edward Eggleston ' s own experi- ences, both as a minister and later as an editor, and the social evolu- tion of the people of Indiana con- tribute to the creation of his com- petency, and when we add to these considerations his instinctive inter- est in the beginnings and tendencies of American life, we must honor him as, one of the greatest of Indiana ' s early literary sons. The portrayer of the Hoosier died in 1902. antique