The herald., 1896-12-07
GARvANzA.
Literary Club Members Drop Into
Poetry, Ancient and Modern.


GARVANZA, Dec. 6.-Garvanzas lit-
erary club Friday evening blossomed
into poetry. Twenty-Five members and
a number of visitors were delightfully."-
entertained at the home of Professor
and Mrs. B. V. Garwood.
An instructive dissertation upon
Spencer's work and his masterpiece, The
Faerie Queen, was given by Mr. Elmer
T. Ingham, who, when at college, made
special study of the subject and is one
Of the few who have read the whole CT
that great poem, which, as Senator In
gals said Of Milton's Paradise Lost. is:
"One all men admire,
But no one ever reads entire"
Members of the club had been request
ed to submit samples OF Spencerian
verse. One by Professor William J..
Judson, while not Spencerian in style,
artistically pictures the struggles Of the
modern reader with ancient English Or
biography, as follows:
MY MEDTAEvAL MAYBE
My Mornas a merrie mediaeval mayd,
She's sweete as the breath of June;
l kist hire under We grenewode tree
By We lighte Of We rysinge moone.
But o, my love. she Is myne no more,
For she writ a lettere to ME:
We Wake no more in ye boskie dclls
When We pimpernel blows on ye lea
My herte is broke and 1 roame forlorn,
All under We grenewode tree;
My haire unkempt, my shoon undone;
There's no more jOye for me.
'Twere not that she called me a bow
legged bloke,
Or told me lackt in sand
Hire coldness, hire scorn might endure;
But hire spelynge could not stande.
Another by Miss Emma Thornton
gave the full history of the club.
In fair Garvanza one October night,
Four people met, as oft had been their way,
To pass in friendly chat, with laughter
light.
The waning hours of the autumnal day.
The lengthening evenings filled them with
And So, their teddum to beguile they sought
To form literary club-yet not
For pleasure merely, but for study and for
thought
Eftsoons it Mapped upon a Friday eve,
These people were invited to high tea,"
Where Mistress H. McBurney did receive,
And there their plan was greeted raptur-
ously.
Miss Abbot twas agreed next day to see,
And to her proffer Of the club CONTROL
To lead. to weave the varied threads OF
thought
OF each and all in one harmonious whole.
Thus aiding greatly in development Of soul.
Miss Abbot kinly gave consent. and 10!
How from beginnings small great things
AS acorn giveth birth to stately tree.
New beauties in the masters old there be
Since Mr. Judson discoursed Of their art;
In architecture, too, was much that we
From Mr.. Fellows learned: he did irhpart
The laws of symmetry. so dear to builders
heart
OF science, too, we've learned goodly
share
Through deep research by Mr.. Abbot
And sculpture from the presidential chair,
And ballads, essays, history polyslot.
Have trooping come; the study and the
OF evenings long. whose tedium is beguiied
When Fridays tasks preparing. Times
forgot,
Nor heed we stormy gust Of winter wild,
When quaffing deep Of ancient English un-
defiled.
A stanza upon Garvanza's sleeping
giant was submitted with the remark
that the October issue of Munsey's mag
azine had already irnmortalized the town
in pretty romance entitled The PEN
dulum Of Fate, by Emma Playter Sea-
bury, who located it's most pathetic
scene in the beautiful Church Of the An
gels, built here by the Campbell-John-
stons of the San Rafael ranch, as
a memorial to their father.
GARvANZA'S SLEEPING GIANT.
From my doorway, beneath the pepper
trees,
I see sleeping giant on the hill;
And when. palms rustic in the morning
breeze,
AS day is waking with the song-bird's
thrill,
The sinking msts disclose him sleeping
still;
His eye tight closed, the firm mouth set.
As II no worldly light. or joy, or i'll.
He'd give no heed; but thought the most
to get
And least to lose by musing on the infinite.
Dr. Colgrove of Los Angeles and Miss
Ada M. Miner Of Pomona were present
and addressed the club. Miss Harriet
Cushing of Antelope valley and Miss
Colgrove of Chicago were also among
its visitors.