Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-06-19
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GRAOOA7zNG Essay OF MISS NOL4 CRyrzrv
REID At COMMENCEMENT EXFROy~pe1'
OF THE ST. JOSEPH HIGH SCHOOL


regret. sorrow, and hope that | stand be
fore yon and my class this morning fol
tie last time. 1t gives me pleasure to b,
n'e Of five out of fifteen who have beer
nembers OF the class and to receive Will
them the reward Of our effort; pleasure
to have been selected to represent my class
But pleasures are like pOppies spread,
You seize the fowers-its bloom Is shed -
And find, stealing into my heart, q
feeling OF regret and sorrow. "For who
alas. has lived, nor in the watches OF
night recalled words he had wish'd I'm.
: i'll and deeds undone."
As | take retrospective view Of the
ast four years, there comes feeling
4 regret; regret, that the opportunities
which have been mine have not been
aiken advantage Of as they might; regret
hat the efforts Of my teachers have not
'"en as inlly appreciated a. they should.
And Il feeling OF sorrow that always &C.
companies completion which represents
years OF tOil-a sorrow akin to that in
iescribable feeling which comes over us
when one OF the worlds great master
pieces has been studied and must be laid
aside. Only the memory remains, a
memory so indelibly impressed that it
has become a part of our very being;
sorrow, that the ties which so closely bind
IRE to be severed and we must say good
bye.
"One only hope my heart can cheer
the hope to meet again." for
Hope springs eternal h the human breast,
Man never is but always to be best"
And Hope glides softly in to assuage
tl,e pain Of parting and regret Hope,
vlo fires the heart Of youth, creates as
slrances OF success in middle life and fol-
loving the aged, who have been granted
the. longest road down the pathway Of
life, presents crown at the end of the
journey by an assurance of life everhst-
ing. Hope we will have with us always,
for
= Behind the clouds the starlight turks,
Thro showers the sunbeams fall;
For God. who lOveth all His works,
Has left His hope with ALL
And with hope we face the future. We
lance at the past and marvel at the COM
.DleXitics of life in which we find ourselves.
Life made more complex and yet simpli-
led by the men OF genius who have made
slch rapid strides in civilization by dis
'overies and inventions. We stand per-
licked and wonder what is left for us in
world 80 crowded, so busy, 80 self-cen-
tired. When from ont of the past there
comes whisper "many have felt thus,
gain assurance, for there is still more he
yond."
And We recall how beautifully Tenny-
'on' has pictured the worlds progress
when he says
men, my brothers, men, the workers, ever
That which they have done but earnest of
the things they shall do.
For dipt into the future, far as human eye
could see,
Saw the visions of the world, and all the
wonders that would be.''
We, less prophetic, "roll back the tide
# time" and behold our own country
wrapt in a veil of mystery. Over the
mighty Atlantic sail boat has at last
reached haven i'm the mouth OF lordly
river. From whence the river flowed we
know not, but far upon some mountain
we picture it like silvery thread, wend-
ing its way down into the valley below,
increasing in volume, until, az
it nears the sea, we behold stream ma
iestic. The invaders stand wrapt in awe
and wonder, mingled perhaps with fear,
lest they be conquered rather than con-
luerors. The feeling increases, for, to the
right and left stretch interininabIe forests. |
Virgin forests, pierced only by foot-paths
made by the wild beasts and followed by /
he swarthy native, hut little higher than |
he animal whose forest home he shares.
A few years pass, and again we zee the
INVADERS. but all fear has departed, for !
he villages, roads and green fields show
hat nature is conquerable. Roads, thro'
orests, over hills and valleys, take the
lace Of foot-paths and join this colony f
o those of others who have proven more
enturesome by penetrating the wilder
less. The population has increased many
Did until at the end of the eighteenth
rntury very little OF our country lies un-
Explored.
With the beginning of the new century
ne genius of invention arrived and a
,agic change was wrought on the seas.