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

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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 .

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The Elizabethan Aqe in Enqlish Literature it HE age of Elizabeth begins the real literary history of England. Al-though, heretofore, England had produced many poets, Chaucer is the only one worthy of mention. The Renaissance gave to the whole world of art, music, and literature an impetus to a movement which the gradual freeing of the lower classes had already started. This period is often termed the Renaissance of English Litera- ture although the real, that is, the Italian and French Renaissance had ended before this. During this age came the development of the drama under Shakespeare and his contemporaries. This age may be best studied by the division of its chief authors into a number of classes. In the first class we find the poets who did not write for the stage. The nucleus of this group was Spenser. He has many well-known poems to his credit, the greatest being the famed Faery Queen. Other non-dramatic poets but of minor note are Sack- ville, Drayton, Chapman, and Sidney. Q During the second stage of the Elizabethan period occurred the birth and growth of the drama in England. The first productions were the Miracle and Morality plays intended to teach the great unwashed the Bible and the Life of Christ in an easily assimilated form. Then as foils for the tragedy came the Interludes,-comedies which set off the darker tragedy as spots of high lights set off the deeper shadows on a painter's canvass. Immediately following this type came Ralph Royster Doyster, a rustic comedy, followed by the first tragedy, Gor- boduc,'9 which was built on the plan of the tragedies of the Greeks. To pave the way for the great Shakespeare came Marlowe, Lyly, Peele, Green, and others, all experimenters. The greatest of these predecessors of Shakespeare was Marlowe. He chose a type now known as the Marlowesque ,-a one-man type of tragedy revolving about a central personality who is consumed by a greed of power. Shakes- peare's Richard the Third was written under the influence of Marlowe and belongs to this class. Now we come to the greatest of all-Shakespeare. He was born in Stratford-on-Avon in 1564. He was a country boy, an actor, editor of old plays, and finally, as a dramatist, he rose step by step to the position of greatest of all playwrights. No one understood the char- acters of men as he did. The philosopher, the fool, the king, the peasant, are all analyzed by his pen. With a master stroke he depicts them all-- their meannesses, as well as their noblest traits. Some say he was a genius naturally, then again he may have been merely a mirror reflect- ing the tastes of a play-loving crowd in a play-loving age. His life and works may be divided into four periods. At first he experimented. He used couplets and poetry in his blank verse, his