The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-06-06
RECEIVED THEIR
DIPLOMAS
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ave pc ished. For with the exception
of two short poems and a few frag-
ments they are all lost.
Her love of nature Ind her owe Of
expressing its charm in simple, st Tx
ing language. reminds of Mendelssonn.
she sings of nature thus:
The stars about the p~ale-faced moon
Veil back their shining forms from
sight
Az oft as. full with radiant round
She battles the earth with silver light
What a picture of southern summer.
with its MONDAY siesta in the open
air, we have in these lines:
"The lulluby of waters cool
ri ough apple boughs is softly blown,
And shaken from the ripping leaves
Sleep droppeth down"
She knows. too. that she herself will
not easily be forgotten. She says:
II think there will memory of us yet,
In after days"
What calls forth Sappho's supreme
: dmiration n love is the cultivated
-enial soul at bore in a beautiful bodv.
7e~ JOY in such souls express itself
n language OF the most tempestous
-ort. In one FRAGMENT she savs:
'rove again. unne~v'ng might.
otter sweet. doth ehate End sm'te
: he a ee~nert folded !teht."
What . da~kered world t must have
Nean that allowed such poetry as he~s
= he loot. and yet it is rot all los'.
"rouph REMAINS to show us the extent
= cli~ loss.
what a n'tv that such ne~fen+ioc
-no'-id rot hove been carad so~. TIE
-a~faction we have shown in G~ee'-
r~oto~v ard Crock Iite-at,t~e nc. ~
ros~ihle. outclaeeed ~ the exquisite
beauty and perfectioness we find in
T~aad %sculnture ard at. The pe~fsc-
ION Of Geek art Is still ro~e won
'e~ful than the perfection Of Geek IT.
nature. In poetry. history and orato~y
tier languages have produced work
rh'ch may stand comparison with the
~aster-pieees of Greek literature. but
n architecture and sculpture the pre-
,rninece OF the Hellenis race .
'cknowledred by the whole civilized
void. An +he most successful artists
f rodern TIRES only hope to approach
md dream not OF surprising the gIor
nus creations Of Creecian art. n was
n beauty of form that the Greek a.
lists reached the highest ideals. In
very Creek city and at the shine of
N,,1rxv Craatr Asvfpftx IL 4 feYpiato
he art Of architectu e and sculpture
rom very early times had had beauti-
'ul and costly embodiment. but it was
1t Athens and under Pencils that
hey had Their eliminating realization.
ghe center Of artistic effort was the
Aesopholis. This hill. once used as a
,itadel was, made the sight of the most
lrtistically effective. and the most
nagnifcently constructed 6. CUP of
buildings the world has ever known.
The Parthenon was perhaps the very
ioblest work of architecture the world
las ever seen. 1t was built entirely
# Pentilic marble and was d ned
within n without with sculptures,
very one of which was a masterpiece
If classic art. Its interior comprised
.wo spaces. The inner one was the
treasury of the Athenian people. The
outer one was graced by the great
worry ard gold statue of the Goddess tc
whom the temple was scared.
Phildias. the most notable sculpture
The world has ever known. was the
gene al designer og the Parthenon.
ae was not only an artist. but a man
Of culture and thought. and his works
a.e the result OF the same. His statue
Of Athena. as well as many OF the ed
ices on the Ac.oplis were all magnifi-
cent structures, but his clossal statue
of zens, in ivory and gold. surpassed
all others. and was one of the seven
wonders of the world. The ivory with
which the greater pat of the figure
was over laid, had a tint of flesh. which,
made ii look Ike a real living. intell.-
gent object. The gold n precious
stones with which it inc. ested were
enough TO ransom a nation. The whoie
work produced such a brilliant and
ehect which lui ed the be-
nolder INTO the belief thai he was look
ing at the foi and face OF Gems him
self, but the whole work was liifoi med
by a split breathed mo II from the
mouth OF Home. for II was his deScelp-
tion OF the kin of Gods and men that
illed the mind OF Phildias when he
thought tbs IMAGE.
So We gee in LAT Little peninsula IN
Southern Europe thee tnlllss .eaehed
a stage of perfection under 1reek cav
liz~ation-th.ee things they-have giveh
10 the void for wiicn they VIII De
envied thu oughout all ages. We would
not lead n to intef tnat the wholt
c.vilizat on of Gree was perfect. Far
f,om tin half their civilization they
we've inferior TO their n~eighbor.n g
countries, and had this half been the
whole of ancient Greece civilization
that little ountry would have been OBJ
liberated from the worlds history hun
d. eds of years ago. AS II is the half
in which they reached perfection-that
/ half alone which Influences the world 8