Villa Madonna Academy - Ros Maris Yearbook (Villa Hills, KY)

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4 if 'T i ,.,-C A SHQFIS -JL and poetry are essentlal to human hap plness It IS true that we could 6X1St wlthout them just as we could exxst wlthout trees wlthout flowers wlthout plctures wlthout good books and wxth out any of the beautlful thmgs we prlze so much But would t be a world worth hvmg m9 Poets have always attrlbuted to mu slc a power over even the 1nan1mate 'H--rv I -o' forces of nature The power of muslc to sway the feelmgs of man has never been more cleverly portrayed than by Dryden m Alexander s Feast Poetry m effect lengthens lrfe It creates for us tlme It IS the breath and finer Splflt of all knowledge It IS bound nelther by tlme nor space but llves ln he heart and Splflt of man What greater pralse can be gxven to It than to say that hfe should be poetry ln actxon9 DOROTHEA HUYCK 45- if mLl7l-lui' '51 'iriai-AL . .,,,lll.-f M f IPage Tuenty I nel Y -, JI - itwlilf ,- '- nl 7--K Y Y-I V - ' -f .- fiog --' Q L+--s a ,Je ,, f ug. . ., so - 4 c so Q- so af-t a - Y . l ' If I V! Y 9 . ' , . , - n . I , . . . . , . i v 1 u 1 V t '25 : sig 3215 'L-7.3: H Eli.. L, if F A 'r' 9 'A A 'i'--' V the o gmc we -rin ,-,a, fglfll - ' rn, 1 -,l x , ' ' ' 2 : 7 -,, 'J x p- 'AE'-1 ' Q y'f'- I, s me ,- I-FF 'll ' 'F 'r l V 'l.,1f ' V1-1-Lf, ' 4' I 9 S l U 'l-' Jr? 23 ,f 'fri F ff- AHA ' ' e?zH-H l l L a - rig,-f 1 ,' , rl... F E755 . saga: H ..--' 'Q l 1 : Y V -- 4 - ' Q, ' ' E l 'N ' f' - '- 'P , ' 'Z 1 1 ' - - .--- 7 AU. , 1 1 fs: '- ' L, -. J',' fy v ' ' '.:.....2.n..4.n.4, -- ,Q 5 , l 'g-L., fa A f .5 nv , ' --Q .e gl- ,Y - - ' . A ' may e- t . 'Y , ' I , Nu-SQ,,.v

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li 'lt 4' Gia :'s1r'x-if MUSIC AND POETRY USIC and poetry together w1th love and romance help to make up all that IS beautlful and lovely ln l1fe Poetry 11ftS the ve1l from the beauty of the world whlch would otherwxse be hxdden and throws over the most fam1l1ar objects the glow and halo of lmagmatlon Muslc wlth xts beautl ful tones dlvme harmomes and per feet melodles soothes the fevered mmd of man and 11fts hlm from lower depths to hlgher and nobler thoughts and actlons The man who loves muslc and poet ry can scarcely fall to derlve lntense pleasure from nature wh1ch to her devotees IS all beauty to the eye and mus1c to the ear Yet nature has never set forth the earth IH so r1ch a tapestry as dxvers poets have done nor Wlth such pleasant rlvers fru1tful trees sweet smellmg Bowers or whatsoever else may make the already too much loved earth more lovely From the smoklest c1ty the poet w1ll transport us as xf by enchantment to the fresh a1r and brlght sun to the murmur of woods and leaves and water to the rupple of waves upon sand and enable us as 1n some dehghtful dream to cast off the cares and troubles of l1fe The poet 1ndeed must have more true knowledge not only of human nature dial but of all nature than other men are gxfted w1th A stranger once asked for perm1ss1on to see Wordsworths study The mald answered Thls IS my master s llbrary but he studles ln the fields No wonder then that na ture has been sald to return the poets ove Call rt uam they do not err Who say that when the poet dres Mute nature mourns her worshrpper And celebrates hrs obsequzes There IS too a muslc of nature the song of the blrds the whlsper of the heavens the wall of the wlnd or the sea Musxc 1ndeed often seems as lf lt scarcely belongs to thls materlal un1 verse but rs A tone of some world far from ours where musxc and moon llght and feelmg are one IS language mcapable of express1ng any thlng coarse or xmpure There IS no doubt that D1v1ne Provldence created our great masters and poets Wagner Gounod Beethoven V e r d 1 Mxlton Tennyson and Shelley for the express purpose of furnxshlng the world wlth celest1al harmomes and verbal melo dles A great poem IS a fountaxn for ever overHow1ng wrth the waters of w1sdom and dellght Musxc IS the ex presslon of d1v1ne asplratxons In thls ense 1f ln no other we see that musrc - 1 Je ig-,fl 'A .E Y Ti' -. ' A4 e Jr- if A 11' Af: - - l 'xv '- r 3.4 .-- ' , o Y Y -7- V4 or fx'- f ' e e W 6 m e M , ' , . . . . - - w . . . H . . ' 9 . . , . y . . 1 YY 9 ' - . . . - y . . . . . v . . .- 1 . I V - 'I - . ' . Q . , , . , 3 ' 1 l U Y . . v - n ' Ki . Q Q ' , ' ' ' . It ' a I I - - ' , y - 1 u . . . n v . s . n v v 1 9 ' ' ' , S . . ' . uyf 1141 nfl ' lrl

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,F .L 4, Ja T9 9EEf':,.czf J sf CLASS PROPHECY Take thls rose and gently press Neath the leax es of some old book When the petals flnally w1ther Open then and take a look Thxs was told me long ago Weary months had slnce passed by Yet I scarce had dared to ope them Though I knew the leaves were dry But at last a curlous feellng Overcame my t1m1d self So I took that dusty volume Took It from 1ts dusty shelf Then I opened w1de the pages Took the rose from out 1tS place And behold' each w1thered petal Had the form of some fa1r face Thxs surprlsed and somewhat cheered me But I scarce could th1nk twas true For those Sl I'11lll lg beammg faces Were the ones of grrls I knew Neath each face was just a sentence ust a llttle word or two But thls Wfltlflg, partly hldden, Set me guessmg what to do Then I not1ced three red petals, Three, besldes the other elght. I-Ixdxng from me all I sought for These were Memory, Years, and Fate So I tore them from the sepals Seeklng those that lay beneath, And began to read the wrltmg There before me on the leaf S ,,.4 V, 4-if - - 1 -f .4 v R if a 77335 e To - I - he Xe- xvf QQ' gf, 1-'J-fAA'T -img sie of it . O 1 J u I Q - . I J I '.'f5'll