St Francis Minor Seminary - Via Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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Q? SAINT FRANCIS SEMINARY Ode on the Diamond Jubilee of St. Francis Seminary We young who breathe the spirit of the time, Each deep-drunk draught enflaming like new Wine, Bid you of much maturer years quaff too, ,T'Will drive dull care away, and ;twill imbue Your spirits drooping from the long days heat, Refreshed in this loved spot, your youth? retreat. And you WIJOSE work? behind, Whose nightts ahead, Whose words and thought: like evening prayersaresaid, Whose prized delight is memory grown old, Come, join our circle while we all make bold To hack to yesteryear and there embrace The friend, the-school, the times, and face to face Renew the days that used to be. You stand, 0 Priest, before your former home; You tee it changed, yet in your heart you feel That ,tis the same. From base to top of dome She stand: a silent altar where you kneel And breathe a prayer for friends Who used to he. Saint Francis Seminary call: to you; Come, help to celebrate her jubilee, And precious friendships once again renew. Once stood :he young and fair to see; Ben now, though old, yet comely Still; Her joyous heart enquickenea' heats Against her age-dimmed wall: now labor-gray. Three score and fifteen years have sped; Haue smiled and scowled in turn; The ruthless flight of time has changed her mien, And left in place an atmosphere Of reverence and love More time-proof than the wall: themselves. Each nook and corner has it: tale to tell, Each room and aisle its xingular event; Each :tone in graveyard nigh retell: the knell Of some dear friend now gone To complement the blest ahodes. Each tree in wood, each hush on lawn Today a-Itirring in the Wind, Relates a happening of former days. A: now you walk anew the paths of old, Each clinging memory of day: long paxt Burst; forth from out its duxty mold of year: Like neW-hom yesterdays. Voices from another day Ringing loud in spirit gay, Echo down the years gone by: hFriendxhips faith-formed never diehi' 0 Alma Mater! Faithful guide! Today Within your wall: abide Your faithful sons re-youthed in memory, In joyous celebration of Your Diamond jubilee. Ring out, 0 hells, proclaim the gladsome day! Sing out, 0 choir, and grateful homage pay! Announce the news! Ye Ion: be proud to hear! Be not axhamed of love? unhidden tear. Be glad in recollection; come to thee On this, your Alma Mater? Diamond Iuhilee. DAVID BOYLE i132!

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CINOIAIVVICI HH'IIEILIF ORIGINAL SEMINARY BUILDING-1856 9878!?

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DIAMOND JUBILEE !856 Members of the Board of Directors HIS EXCELLENCY SAMUEL A STRITCH, D, D., Praid'em VERY REV. A. J MUENCH D. S. Sc., Rtuor ' REV. NICHOLAS BRUST. M. A.. Trauma REV. GEORGE C. EILERS M. A., Strrctary m RT REV. MSGR. A B SALICK i141