St Marys High School - Labarum Yearbook (Saginaw, MI)

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Shakcspeares Floral Treasures Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take A The winds of March with beauty. -The Winter's Tale Throughout Shakespeare's sonnets and in many of his plays we find frequent mention of flowers. His familiarity with these gentle Woodland natives has been a constant subject of surprise. But when one stops to consider that this great author was born and brought up in a part of English country in which nature seems to have centered all her beauty and that he was schooled primarily by Dame Nature who told the secrets of flower and forest and dell to an open, well-attuned soul, we must cease our Wonder and pause at the feet of this greatest of poets to learn of those wonderful incarnations of beauty-nature's flowers. - In Hamlet We find flowers in the hands of Ophelia and We hear her say as she carefully fingers each blossom: There's rosemary, that for remembrance, pray, love, rememberg and there is pansies, that's for thoughts. There's fennel for you, and columbines: There's a daisy: I would give you some violets, but they wither'd all, when my father died. Then as an appropriate climax to the flower-like existence of the fair Ophelia, the poet has the queen strew her grave with flowers as she murmurs the Words: Sweets to the sweet. But let us not tarry long over this fscene but hurry away, with Shakespeare as our companion, to country fields to enjoy a breath of Spring,- ' When daisies pied and violet's blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow-hue Do paint the meadows with delight, and that we may witness morning's first smile we will start early when .. .. the lark at heaven's gate sings And Phoebus 'gins arise His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes. WVhat an entrancing hour! The young day is waking full of life! A gentle breeze stirs every leafy branch, melodious song-birds trill their messages of hope, while from over the hills can be heard the echo of the soft-toned church bell as it sings its morning call that bids us think of Him who has given to the earth such freshness and verdure.

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Class of '23 CORNELIUS M. SCHREMS ARTHUR F. DeVEAUX ..... MARGARET M. BENDER .,.... President ..........Vice-President ................Secretary HARMON F. REMEY ...........,.,,.........,....,.., ........ T reasurer CLASS FLOWER Pink Rose CLASS COLORS Cherry and White CLASS ROLL Floyd John Banks Margaret Mary Bender Ralph Newman Carpenter Francis Hugh Courtney Hazel Catherine Davis Arthur Flavian DeVeaux Grace Barbara Dwan Marion Elizabeth Green Louis Joseph Guinen Alphonsus Nicholas Holihan Vivian Blanche LaVigne Catherine Anatasia Martin Dolores Gertrude McLaughlin Flora Mary Novak Mabel Agnes O'Brien Harmon Francis Remey Rosalie Margaret Schrems Cornelius Michael Schrems We are all more or less echoes, and We repeat in spite of our selves, the virtues, the faults, the movements, and the characters of those who are constantly with us.

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Caught up by this jubilant message of new life we will blithely proceed on our joyous way, through valleys to explore woody nooks and mossy caves and pluck here a 'Primrose, firstborn child of Ver or there a handful of Oxlips in their cradles growing. . These precious treasures in our hands, we must now bid adieu to our poetic guide and leave his world of beauty for our work-a-day world of cares and troubles, but ever will we keep fresh the memory of this spring morning, A When daffodils begin to peer Why then comes in the sweet o' the year, , For red blood reigns in the winter's pale. I -Hazel Davis, '23 i, 0 The Holu Familu This is the lesson they teach- The earthly Trinity: That only where Faith and Prayer abide Can God's blessing ever be. This is the message they give, St. Joseph and sweet Mary: That only when Love girds the sacrifice Can man live tranquilly. Dear'Joseph, whose Faith was so strong, Dear Lady, whose Prayer was so sweet, Oh, guide us to love that we may Repose at the dear Lord's feet. -Selected W7 .