Soldan High School - Scrip Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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6Si QlZll23l j Two glowm li ures approach arm ln arm They need no lanthorn The1r faces falrly emlt 11 ht Frances bless you and john ohn Fletcher The sound of hlgh talk follows but no coherent word And on they go Lodge Dekker and there IS Nash a grey shadowy wrsp out of the H1 ht for close at hand IS that ghost hke fi ure w1th the proud head Ah Tamburlamel Beloved Klt Marlow you would leash k1nvs to your charlot wheels And Nash weeps for h1s adored Klt w1ll not be of the splend1d company ton1 l't At the ve y portal the shadow vamshes As they pass throu H the ns1l studded door N sh pleads wlth one bes1de him Ay IN ter Chapman the Hero and Leander you w1ll Hmsh It Throu h the w1de door one by one they follow When the last has entered I approach the ruddy faced pot boy he repl1es rf you w1ll keep well w1th1n the arras there Such thm s are not meant for wcmen I reply Nay lad nor for men e1ther Such happenmvs are for the gods There IS a cllnk of the ladle on the huge wassall bowl and br Ben runs the whole gamut of throat clearmg .scarcely has he uttered a word when there IS a reat choral cry Then as master of the revels hrs chalr IS hfted and evervone donnm hrs mummers head the processlon headed by W1ll Kemp farrly dance about the room all chantxn the Twelfth N1 ht at the Merma1d Twelfth nzght knows a merry place Where he goes w1th fondest face Brrghtest eye bnghtest han' Tell the Mermard Where IS that one place Where' So san W1ll Kemp Shakespeares beloved fool and the m1 hty chorus followed untrl the srlver talled mermald outside trembled 1n her frame Ben IS finally seated agaln beh1nd the great wassall bowl the Swan of Avon to h1s rlght The cup 1S passed and the cakes And the toasts and the tales beU1n And gentle Wlll at first speaks l1ttle that mght save to call off the names of those now m the undlscovered country and Whose ardent splrlts had come with them th1s very mght even to the very portals of the Mermald The toasts over the tales begm even as one of our very pleasant modern wr1ters has glven them And between the tales comes the battle of the w1ts and here Master Wlll 1S the leader To Uwe the flavor of these Great nlghts I w1ll quote from an eye Wltness a letter from Francis Beaumont to Ben Jonson about the year 1605 14 -- ' fs 14? -- 71: -g-V Q2-lag.-zx. 1,1 13- ,ff f - fl 'r A W ,, c. X .1 I 1 A X-,ffez I- W - :Q-YL fkff--f-' :Q f im 7-. :l: i,zf - ,Y Y' - , , - . O, on . b b ' . . . .on H J za ' ' YY 'O' V O- ! I V V . .OU . Y, - . v O4 . b ' 6 as ' 1 1. - g A . I' I gr L. - , , Z1 ' ' G5 Fr C ' ' 1 ' . - 1 5 r , , - - yu 0 . o ' ' IC 7' ' tl' , - - - Ay. , . . . . O ' :J Q! ll ' ' . ' - - v 1 - 3 O' .ly . . on . .or U - A o' ', ' . or . . D ' ' . . . A . , . o . 1 b . . . , Q li 'o, ' Y! :D . 14' ' rv , ,B 0' ' ' 'o' tr ' ' b . U . . OA . y . .G ' . ' . A . . .U b . - Y ol. , T . U. U b a '

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f fa' a, QEQSmw1w f' far from be1n0 the recoverer It had H ured amonb the le endary adorn ments of fancy whlch the school of Colerldbe Lamb and Le1 h Hunt passed prrvately from man to man Indeed Hazlltt referred to It several t1mes as an art1cle of poetlc falth But to our tavern T1s Twelfth N1 ht the closln of the twelve days of Chrlstmas merrrment and wh1le there IS yet tlme and the v1s1on st1ll before me and whlle I walt for the cakes for alack' the ale W1ll be m1ss1n the corner of Bread street and Cheapslde rn Old London O many a t1me I have stood there and have thoubht Here they walked here they stopped and entered I st1ll see the old na1l studded black oak door It IS twlllbht agamst a murky oranbe shot sky As the loom thlck ens there HTISCS before me an old t1mbered bu1ld1n wlth ables aloft set 1n rlchly carven frames cur1ous monsters shootlng out at the an les and from the beam ends I hear the creak of 1ron and there swmbmo at the corner IS the old Sl n I need not look too cur1ously My heart tells me It IS the Mer ma1d I turn as I half feel a movement One of the beam ends seems to sway fantastlcallv Oh there he IS W1ll Kemp astrrde a rrffon H1s smbm, comes down to me In youth when I d1d love d1d love a luoubrrous sono I thmk for a Twelfth N1 ht But he chan es O mlstress mme where art thou roam1n 9 Then another chan e And let me the canakrrz clznk A soldzer s a man A Izfe s but a span Why then let a soldler dnnk fOtheIIoD Suddenly out of the shadows they gather They fall 1nto l1ne and W1ll Kemp the Kmb of Comed1ans Jumps down amonv them s1nb1n and beckomnb them Under the greenwood tree Who loves to Ire wzth me And turn hzs merry note Unto the sweet brtd s throat Ah I know them all The first a stately fioure carr1es on h1s arm a velvet cloak and the lantern close at hand shows that lt IS mud stamed Ah, I remember a queens foot had once rested there And close at hand IS Robert Greene death 1n hls face But h1s b1tter look changes to supphcatron, when a great heavy hulk of a man hurr1es for ward and shouts, Ah, W1ll, what would the Mermald be wlthout thee 9 W1ll ralses hrs hand bemgnantly to the ghost l1ke Greene Then w1th an almost resrgned look the ghastly face vanlshes l I 4. , is 'X- ' Af L.,-F' rx,--s-:Lf ii --H 59- - , -' ' ' . .' - .,. 41 A A Y I 'C'I N'-'Alf'- J, fr K X' --f--gf - ,Xl Q4--'17-2-5 ffrf ,. Xl' A 'il 4 H ' O' O O' - b ' D O . . or .O , . 6 O 1 O' b D . . - u . . . g-I must find myself in a far-off time-in a far-off place. I am standing on ' O, J 1 . . .Or . OA - on . - ' o . . . . O- . on ' D D . . - , . A O- D . - . O, A . , ,, . .O . . . - D . . . - . - . . O . - .1 D ' ' of O, n - - sv- , ' , ' il ' A V! Ll D as g 1 g 1 I . T . O' YL O' .-.. b' D I ' ' 73 . . Op . . A . O.. on . , D . D . or U ' V !7 , . . 5 .

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5GI'L4PJUl5R ' What thxngs have we seen Done at the Mermardo Heard words that have been So nzmble and so full of subtle flame As zf that every one from whence they came Had meant to put hrs whole wrt rn a jest And had resolved to lrve a fool the rest Of his dull llfe Then when there had been thrown Wzt able enough to just1fy the town For three days past wrt that mzght warrant be For the whole clty to talk foolrshly T111 that were cancelled And when that was gone We left an azr behznd us whzch alone Was able to make the next two companzes rlght witty one say remembered? when one means re created throu h some eso terlc code left us by these od l1ke men I'he1r very names chrysomelan names a poet calls them these very names call 1nto beln the thou sand and one n hts when Ensland was at her pxnnacle of mtellectual lory Then there dropped from thelr ton ues or dr1pped from then' pens 1n 1chor such tales such son s as man may never wholly forbet Or lf forootten men s mmds dwellm on these half hmted at lorles have throu h the ur e of these lmrrortal souls pulsed down to us somethmv of thelr eternal utterances Ton1 ht ah only yesterday The K1n0 the ocean sea the sp1r1t as of Walter Raleloh spoke to us from the Roose velt as he called courage to the Antmoe We are sendlnv a boat But 1n the far off days a fine stately presence m the old mn parlor he told the story of S1r Humphrey Gllbert and the Golden Hynde Cflorxous because he hlmself was the master of the wmd and the wave And 1n h1s words we see the llttle attendant shlp ,oo down w1th one who exhlblted so lorlously the chxvalry of the sea the chlvalry repeated only yesterday Over our fleets forever more The wlnds w1II tnumph and the waters roar' But he sazls on sazls on before But on another mght the m1 hty Ben holds the center of mterest as he tells the story of the stalkmg of the deer In Charlescote Park But Ah 1f entle Wlll were ever gullty twas for sweet Ann Hathaway For her he slew a phantom deer under a falry thorn and now take up the entle son He hunted all a nzght of june He followed a phantom horn, He kllled a buck by the lrght of the Moon Under a farry thorn lu ,ff f x if!-1 A5:,.a?'i1,1--A- X '-Lat,-gf -H a- Q,-ff 2 F W 1 .- K - J K X I J Q v J! ef' - W mv- 1-sf e L- as .H s . F21 , - fl ' I 1 ' I I Y ' 4 7 , - - - vs Ah these nights! to be remember cnly in dreams or in visions. May l - O' - ' ' C . W or - . , . - C . m m . . O' - ' ca io' 0 ' ' 'ta a 3 - S ' 1 O. O, . C, . - . I , . . O- - . - on . D ' D D ' rg g ' tr . .OA - - . I ' U D' 1 T- E - O, ' J ' , 'V 6 . ' ' . li I1 D . . . . . on . . . on . . - . ta I6 ' ' 77 , . . .or . IJ . U . A , , , C, . 3 S5