Smith College - Smith College Yearbook (Northampton, MA)

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love in a world of sorrow and pain and to make the harmony sound sweeter because of the discords of despair is the gift of a great singer. To bring a world of lawless- ness under the regime of law requires a God. Shakspere was a great poet, a great singer, a great teacher and being the sum total of all these things, a great man, he recognized the possibility of a God. He became a scholar and strove to find out the meaning of the laws of that God. He found that man was a part of the divine law. He watched him, studied him, loved him, as only a true student can, sympathetically, lovingly, unswervingly. Then after he had observed, the teacher, the artist, the poet, in the world ' s greatest singer awoke, and he wrote of what he had learnt. He told of man, who had sinned and gone astray, of the penalty that his sin must cause him to bear. He called these stories tragedies because man of his own will had wandered away from life and chosen death. Yet ever and anon amid these tales of sorrow he told of those who, living in a sinful world, were yet pure. He told his story simply, sincerely, so that those who read were filled with hope rather than despair, with courage rather than faint-heartedness. Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth ' s smoothness rough, Each sting that bids not sit, nor stand, but go. Be our joys threefold pain Strive and hold cheap the strain Learn, nor account the pang ; dare never grudge the throe. It is not the voice of Rabbi Ben Ezra alone that speaks. It is the echoes from the ages growing stronger, not fainter as they come to us. Alice Jackson. 21

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