Southwest High School - Roundup Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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SUNRISE ON THE MISSISSIPPI By BILL STEELE JTis dawn and the sun is coming upg The layered night mists fill The valley like a cup. Then to banish shadows from hill and fen Day's weak red rays come o'er the hill And ghostly shadows of long-gone men Who roamed the waters the livelong night Go, taking flight like the wren Who, seeing its home in sight, Flies fast and true to its bower. So vanish these river spirits when comes the dawning hour. The ruddy river awakens me, And draws me forth from fantasy: Again I see the beauty of Sunrise on the river of my love. S. Q... .. ,, Y-I ----. .L. .,. . i f E '- -J-13 S1 ' 459 ii IQ, x .W ,Ld xml,-vj-,.L-.-- ff tl X. E? X: Twenty-four

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C Accepted for SPRING f Prize Winning Poem Q By JOSEPH BANTE When spring treads softly across the wakening earth, We trace her steps in uioletfs gentle birth, In winds that carry the lilac's sweet perfume And urge the hyacinth to an early bloom. And in our hearts the same tremendous urge Of wakening hopes-arises, and seems to purge Our souls of all uncleanliness and greed, And fills a universal need Shared alike by commoner and king, The renaissance of faith that comes with spring. publication and given HONORABLE MENTION by the National High School Poetry ' Association.J fRead at the College Club Evening of Poetry., PICTURE OF PRIZE WINNERS From left: Pa in the 194 t Walker, whose short story, entitled Goober Jim, won her first place 5 Roundup contest, Joe Bante, Whose poem, Spring, won in the poetry division, and Gloria Simon, who came in first with her essay, entitled On Essays Twenty-six