The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-30
SELECTIONS ARE GIVEN
Mrs. Parkhurst and Mr.. Shaver
Assist the Lecturer.
Teachers Association Opens
With Bright Prospects.

brought out.
Mr. Dewey began with the grand old
psalms of King David of Israel poet,
musician, warrior and. statesman.
bringing out their sweetness and
strength. In the early history of lit
eratule, ne said poetry was always
sung. Foeuy and music We're tnsep-
arabic. The poets sang their compo-
sitiors. II has only been in the last
three hundred years that poetry and
music have been drifting apart. Mr..
Dewey be Leves that the effect of the
separation has been beneficial, "other-
wise, he said, some of the greatest
ara Erandest music could never have
Eeen WI ten had it been subject to the
limitations of words
Mr. Dewey explained the relation of
poetry and music and read a number
OF selections to show the poetry in
them' and then the same selections
were sung by Mrs. George w. Park
hurst or MIR. William Shaver. The first
OF these was Tennyson's beautiful
poem, Crossing the Bar one of the
last the poet ever wrote. The sentf-
ment of the poet was first brought ont
by Mr. Dewey's reading, and then ths.
music III it by the rendition by Mr..
Shaver. The poem is as follows:
CROSSING THE BAR
Sunset and evening star.
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the
When 1 put out to sea.
But such a tide as moving seems asleep.
Too full for sound and foam.
When that which drew from out the
boundIess deep
Turns again home.
Twilight and evening bell
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of fare
well
When 1 embark.
For tho from out our bourne of Time
and Place
The flood may bear me far,
hope to see my Pilot face to face
When 1 have crost the bar.
Other examples read and sung were
1.-The Indian Serenade," by Shelley;
"One Morning. Oh! SO Early" by Jean
Ingelow; 20, Vert Thou in the CauId
Blast" by Burns; What the Chimney
Sang" by Bret Harte; Mother and
Child by Macdonald, and Some
Tine by Eugene Field.
Mr.. Dewey explained in beginning
that his lecture was first prepared ten
years ago at the instance of some of
the people of Abilene for the entertain
ment of the Central Kansas Teachers
association, which met there that year.
At that time Eugene Fields Little
Boy Blue was new, and Mr.. Dewey
used it in his lecture for some time,
but now, he said last night in referring
W
knows literature at all knows little
Boy Blue" He has therefore substi-
tuted Fields "Some Time" for it. Soon
after the Poets death, Mr. Dewey said
he visited Mrs Field and the poets
children in Chicago for half a day, and
this poem was spoken of by Mrs. Field
more than any other one. The children
too, naturally thought more of it than
any other poem their father had left
them. It is as follows:
SOME TIME
Last night, my darling. as you slept,
I thought 1 heard you sigh,
And to your little Grip 1 crept,
And watched a space thereby;
Then, bending down, I kissed your
For, oh! I love you So
You are too young to know it now,
But some time you shall know.
Some time, when, in a darkened place
Where others come to weep,
Your eyes shall see a weary face
Calm in eternal sleep;
The speechless lips, the wrinkled brow,
The patient smile may show
You are too young to know it now,
But some time you shall know.
Look backward, then, into the years,
And see me here tonight
See 0 my darling! how my tears
Are falling as 1 write;
And feel once more upon your brow
The kiss OF long ago
You are too young to know it now,
But some time you shall know.
When MI Dewey came to the poem
he had selected from Burns he hest
tated It navar attempt to read Il Sc
lection from Burns he said when
John Macdonald is in the audience
To be sure. Mr.. Macdonald was never
in my audience before. but this state
1nent holds good just the same. / knew
by including a selection from Burns
liz this programme that Mr.. Macdonald
would not say anything bad about me,
for his friendship for the Scotch poet
IS so great that he never says anything
ka1 about anyone who says anything
good about Purns. I think with n lit
tie persuasion on the part of the audi
e,ce We tan get Mr.. Macdonald to
| core fot ward and read this selection. .
A gathering of Kansas teachers
never fails to call for John Mac Donald
whenever II gets a chance, ana il di1
so If rosuoiise to Mr.. Dewey's request
Mr.. Ma, Donald acceded to the request,
and after a few characteristic rem. irks
he read tlsc poem. which was ra!s iared
iii a duet by Mrs. Parkhurst and Mr..
| Shaver.