Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1915-02-11
HIGH SCHOOL
NOTES

THE WIND AND STREAM.
q A brook came stealing from the
ground:
You scarcely saw Its silvery CLEAN
Among tho herbs that hung around
The borders OF that winding stream
The pretty stream, the placid stream
The softly gliding, bashful stream.
A breeze came wandering from the
sky.
Light az the whispers of dream,
He put the Exchanging grasses by,
And SOFTLY stopped to kiss the stream
The pretty stream, the flattered
stream,
The shy yet mreluctant stream.
The water, as the wind passed Ger,
Shot upward many glancdng beam,
Dimpled and quivered more and mors
And tripped along, lfvelier stream,
The flattered 4stream, the simpering
stream
The fond, delighted, silly stream.
Away the airy wanderer flew
To where the fields with blossoms
TEEN,
To sparkling springs and rivers blue,
And left alone that little stream,
The flattered stream, the cheated
stream,
The sad, forsaken, lonely stream.
That careless wind came never back,
He wandeGs yet the fields, deem;
But on it's melancholy track
Complaining went that little stream,
The cheated stream, the hopeless
stream,
The ever murmuring, mourning
stream.
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.
At the time of the recent semes-
ter examinations, the above poem
was placed on the board and the
question asked, "Why has this poem
endured?" The following criticism
Of the poem was written by Earl
Keller and is only one OF the ten
very good ones done by the class
of thirty. Every criticism was origin
al and had real merit, and an inter
esting thing concerning them is
that eight of the ten which were
unusually good were done by boys.
Miss Dorsey is pretty proud OF
the result and makes the statement
that the following criticism is CIV
en- just. as it was handed in for
the examinations
This poem has lived for many
good reasons. In the first place it |
deals with nature, subject Of
which everyone knows, and enjoys
reading about. The poem is beauti-
fully rhythmical, a succession Of
soft and musical sounds, especially
in the first two stanzas, makes the
poem very harm onious. In the LIST
stauza, one cannot help but think
II a clear, dainty little stream rum
ning over bed Of moss; stream
which started from a pure and deli
sate spring. interfering with moth
ng, tending to its own affairs.
In the second stanza, the wind
-eferred to makes one think of a
small, playful, inspiring breeze.
The third verse Is livelier. The
Wind has cheered the lonely stream,
md has sent it on dts way happier,
olljer than before.
The latter part OF tho fourth verse
caves the little stream as lonely as
before, and the refreshing, "airy" {
freeze passes on.
The last verse is almost entirely I
different. The stream which was
'laddened by the wind. is more lone
y now that Il is gone It Is left I
neiancnoly, deserted almost sad
surely to the everyday person, {
md these are the people the poem I
must appeal to, to be long living, t
lainty, musical, rythmical poem, of
description would be the
ne.
But to the more cultured and OBJ
ervant reader. the soft sounds, such t
= stream" CLEAN" bashful" soft L
liding", and numerous others in the r
lrst three verses, add greatly to
he afore mentioned qualities. In
ne last two lines OF the fourth o.
erse. and all of the last verse, the O.
Pnument is sadness, ionelyness, fl