Washington College - Pegasus Yearbook (Chestertown, MD)

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Ah, happy fields, ah, pleasing shade. Ah, fields belov ' d in rain. Where once my careless childhood strayed A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales, that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow. As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary sold they seem to sooth. And, redolent of youth and youth. To breath a second spring.

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Through the Gateway

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OW odd it seems that the Eastern Shore, high- est developed region of a Province founded by a Catholic for religious freedom, has :hurches chiefly of the originally Anglican faith, as survivors of changing time. Thes; churches are Protestant Episcopal now, and doubtless the majority of the Shore today is Methodist. Still, the quaint Quaker Meeting House at Easton, where William Penn once led meeting, serves yet, as the oldest house of continuous worship in the United States. In Chestertown is beautiful old Emmanuel, where the Protestant Episcopal Church was founded. Rufus Rockwell Wilson has suggested that Thomas Gray could have found no purer place to write his Elegy in a Country Church- yard than in the yard of St. Paul ' s, near Chestertown. There stands the good church where the aristocratic of the parish have worshipped for two centuries. In the dim light inside, the rich, dark panelling, the golden service in the apsidal chancel, and the fair, white linen on the altar bespeak the loving care of genera- tions. Outside, under the tall spruces, rare English yews and huge oaks sleep the jurists and the teachers and the planters — Kent County ' s illustrious sons. St. Paul ' s, Shrewsbury, Trinity, Christ Church of Cambridge, and the pretentious King Carter ' s Church, cruciform in design, of the lower Shore, are representatives of the loveliest, holiest churches in America. BOOK ONE