The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-17
} CLASS PROPHECY.
By Georgia Baker.

dreamed a dream In the midst OF
my slumbers;
AS fast as dreamed it, it ran into
numbers.
My thoughts ran along in such beau
tiful meter,
I'm sure you never heard poetry
sweeter.
My dream was of the class OF nine
teen hundred and nine,
A class which in all it's precepts lis
fine,
And of the lot assigned by fate
To each bright and lovely class
mate.
To Carey, of course. there came
Each passing year still greater
fame
In music, study she dearly loves,
And with her playing all hearts
| she moves.
dreamed / was seated in an opera
grand,
Across the seas in some foreign
land,
And as sat there amazed,
Behold, saw the curtain raised.
4 On the stage, as fair as the Viz
/ gin Mary,
/ / saw my lovely class-mate, Carey.
AS the first glimpse of her the au-
dience had,
! 1t really seemed that it would go
mad.
Finally, when it had quieted some
But of conversation there was a
deafening halm-
l gathered this much from some one
near,
That Carey, one of my classmates
dear,
Had taken by storm this distant land
With lher beauty and talent so
grand.
Her playing they said was simply di-
vince.
Il pathos divine.
My eyes roamed over the beau
taEul scene.
But back to the stage they went when
Carey began to play,
And | thought of our school life
Spent I'm such pleasant way.
Each movement was perfect ease
S3nd grace,
(which accorded we'll with her lovely
! f1ace.
4 When Carey's music was over,
"A ,ithunder of applause shook the
house from floor to cover,
And truly she derserVed it well,
Fo1 she played much bettG, than 4
can tell
! Now Carey, / hurnbly beg of you,
Accept with my compliments this pi
ano new;
Ills really given lin the name "a
the class,
Land we hope all 1rnsicians you Slll
4 ssalrpass.
4 I'm sure as out insO life YOU go.
aYnl can accomplish that with tthii
/ little piano.
! when applause fNr Garry hadStGet
away,
93And silence held the audience lin it
sway,
! There appeared En the-Etage Irene,
Land no fairer yisinn was sever ses n
a Than she was with her sgoldem hal
Pulled loosely back from her bros- 81
fair
4 Beautiful she 1oRked as the blushin
\ Rose
! That in the morning breeze brig hte
81 blows.
h She was greeted by applause great
She, my beautiful bright class-mate.
II 1t showed in what esteem she wa
II held,
\ And with great 1ejnicing my hear
Il swelled-
Y After waiting a time not long,
4She began to sing Her beautifulsOng
What words can express the deel
feeling
IsOf dhe beautiful singer with look sS
sapReahnge
Like the warbidng of aa4happy. bird,
'lGIer sweet and mAllsw voice is-Aeard
4 Her heart, one cam tell, DIS hin the
song
bEor she sings OF "MsaraeSt" thNsghts
bygene.
Sweeta- and Emsater the 4sons
seeQxf to grow
with every note both Highland idST.
As nearer and Reafsr -ihEeaGheS the
close
Ihe audialce into raptmres goes,
BUT WHEN the last sweet note mas
scared and fell
1t is broken from its magic spell.
| And such applause WAS naf e.
! heard
As greeted athis' girl who ssGlg like q
! bird
Now, Irem, to- you we lprasents9s $
song
In learning h., U1e pray VOL s1on'tsss
I0ng,
And may yaou at Some lnszr frtiizs
day
Delight us by sin ging it lin "a beau@
fa1l way.
And now dreams: mystic hand
Leads rlne onafEDm land To land,
I'm quest of my other classrna5ei
Rose
Who gathers NEW knowledge as she
goes.
By her close c0bse.:vation of every
natural thing,
I'm sure SHE'S the artist OF wiham
poets sing.
She wanders ON from pasture to
river,
Gathering new thoughts for her w@nk