The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-05-29
from the deep


Leaving traces on. the sands to tell
of their short stay,
Marks they stamp which, though DIM,
abide to eternal day,
So there are human tides, dear
.s. friends, which flow to every
shore
They, on the sands of time, rise high
SO and then ebb out once more.
And thus it is with us, classmates,
9aoz whose lives have led this, way,
We gather on the shores of life &c
work, to laugh and play.
Creeping tides from out the deep roll
in, and just SO we a
AIingle with cares of life, then back to
the boundless sea.
But let. US leave some priceless gift to
man before we part,
Some word or smile or golden deed
to cheer some lonely heart..6%
by the white-capped waves,
ambition in their roar,
One throws himself into the spray of
earth's great reservoir,
Hee1ing not the rugged rocks 'gainst
which they dash and break,
Blindly yielding to that voice which
calls a course to take.
Though rough it be, conquer that
wave, plunge on with strength
of soul,
Let not the obstacles of life make
ship-wreck of your goal
Vain popularity comes dashing in with
naughty sweep,
With naught upon it's sparkling wave
but wreckage from the deep.
victims once allured by
it's deceitful roar,
High. capped waves which swell and
fab, and then are seen no more,
Like empty bubbles in the air for
which we madly reach,
To see them only break as foam upon
the pebbly beach.
And oft the sea is treacherous when
breaking waves dash high,
As if in mockery to fling their spray
back to the sky.
And then, as if repenting of mischief
idly done,
Calm, deceiving, there she lies be-
meath the golden sun.
Oh, let us not be as the froth at sea
upon the crest,
Rut strive to be, and not to seem, and
leave to God the rest.
Now. as we stand, GEAR classmates,
upon futures brink tonight,
A lan nf
ev'ry prospect bright,
may we choose the tide. which
if at food is taken,
Leads on to fortune" so It's said, If
not forsaken,
And may we, as our tide returns, so
blithesome and so free,
Bring with us treasures choice and
fine from out the deep blue sea,
To the two popular and talented
young musicians of the class, Miss
Kemp and Mr.. Erwin, was given one
of the very delightful musical num-
bers on the evenings program, their
duet, an overture, "Phedre." by Massi'
net. being both difficult and beautiful,
and was rendered faultlessly by
them.
The young secretary of the class
followed next with the class will, ana
her sister, Miss Gladys Wallis, read
the prophecy, an entertaining letter:
We, the members of the Senior
Glass of the Ocala High School of the
County of Marion and State of Flori-
da. being of a disposing mind and mem
DRY, and realizing that we are about
to depart this life do make, publish
and declare, this to be our last will
and testament; hereby revoking all
former wills made by us at any time.
We, the members of the aforesaid
class, do hereby will and bequeath
to the Senior Glasses the ex-
cellent records of scholarship that
we, as class, have maintained to-
gether with the dignity which has
been the object of one and of admira-
ton of many Freshmen boys. And to
those would be scientists in the Jun
ior Class, we the Senior Science Class
do will, those we'll beloved and much
abused pieces of apparatus for Great
ing electricity; and to those self CEN
tered junior boys. we bequeath the
rear seats in Study Hall, and the ex-
elusive right of conducting the Ager-
therdian Society, which duty was for
merly performed by the Senior girls.
To the forthcoming class in French
we, Alice Sexton, Nellie Beckham,
Rexie Todd, Ann Pope Eagleton and
Theo Wallis do beQueath the right of
entertaining the Freshmen boys with
appropriate love stories. These sto-
ries must be interesting and amusing
so the above mentioned boys will not
yawn over them, nor have to exert
themselves to catch the point.
l, Rex Caroline Todd, do hereby
will to Annie Mallete Moorhead my