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

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The Dance of the Colors JIAROON AND GOLD GREEN AND GOLD BL UE AND TAN 28

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KING: What ho! My herald. Has come the time, when our Soldania fair Has need of colors bright and gay for each, And ev'ry Knight her favor proudly wears. Gog have the dancers brought, and say that they Shall come in colorful array for they must show As from an artist's palette gay of hue Colors in wondrous shade and tint and toneg Bright reds, pale golds, jade green, and royals too, Poured forth with freshest shades of early Sprin Shall be the golden warmth of Autumn days, Each lending grace and soft confusion gay Unto the dance. S, fThe dance of the Colors is presented by members of the girls dancmg classes m four groups. Soldania rejects the colors proffered by the dancers in the first three groups, but greets the Gold and Brown with enthusiasm. J SOLDANIA: Here falls my choice upon these Colors warm. I'1l wear them proudlyg and on you, brave Knights Bestow them as a token and a sign. When in the rich fullness of the harvest year Sweet Autumn comes enwrapped in colors warm As if to guard against the cold to come Upon the breath of winter white, Loved Mother Nature sheds her garb of green While in its stead she dons her joyous cloak Of colors bright, and rich and full of joy. The many fairy folk with magic wand Do Hit and dance among the forest glades Assisting Nature in her yearly change: They touch the countless, faded, weathered leaves, Rejuvenating them in fresh warm hues. So shall the mantle round my shoulders be Graced with the colors of the ripened year- Brown of the oak, and gold of maple tree, These shall a mystic symbol be of hopes And high ideals. Earth's lowly mould is brown, And golden bright the stars. Our modest tasks Of every day, the web-like threads of brown Shall be. They're nothing strange: just homely acts And kind, yet these are sweet when hearts beat high And this, not less, is pictured by the gold. CThe episodes that follow are introduced in turn by the reader of the prologue who traces the schooI's history through its twenty years J 27

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HER SYJIHOI. IS .-I FL,-IJIING TORCH PASSED ON SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENT Sweet Scholarship is like a clear pure flame, Fanned into being from the Mind, divine, Fed and nourished with rich Wisdom's oil, Illuminating Worlds of Thought with light. Her symbol is a flaming torch passed on From hand to hand, tended and cherished by Each one who, priv'leged, bears it but a step. Its welfare is their common care. They tend It with the zeal that true devotion brings. PROCESSIONAL OF THE TORCHBEARERSU fMembers of the Honor Society move in processional to the stage. HYMNUS: FESSI, VENITE Fessi, venite ad Deum, Et iam venetemur Eum. Animas vestras Ievabit, Omnes dolores iuvabit. Extollamus voces nostras Laudas canite his locis, 29 Et huc gratiis venite Vocem pastoris audite. Qui fecit caelum tertamque Qui dedit mate vitamque, Libenter Eum Iaudemus, Eum pie supplicemus.