Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1917-06-13
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COUNTRY GRADUATION:
vdedletoD and Salutatory De-
IIyoFed at Exercises at
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sALUTAToRY.

Friends: 1t is great honor to me,
IN behalf of my class, the class of
1917, to welcome you all to our exer-
cises today. We hope that what little
Is said here may be Of some benefit
and enjoyment to each and everyone.
We are gathered together on this
eventful day, in one of natures beauty
spots and all about us we see the gran
deur and wonderful work OF Nature.
Were all the changes of color and
form to disappear, how dull and weari-
some would be the aspect of the world
The pleasures that we enjoy as a re-
suit OF these beauties are so much
matter of course that we scarcely
think of their number or their influ-
ence upon our lives. But were we to
be removed from it's delightful seen
cry to the midst of an Arabian desert,
an expanse of sand, waste, desolation,
frightened by no streams or verdure,
altho one might live in a palace and
In luxury, we would find life dull and
wearisome and would sigh for the hills
and valleys Of our native land, the
brooks, rivers, the luster of spring and
the glories of autumn. The grandeur
of the landscape. the magnificence of
the sun, moon, stars and sky enter
more into the enjoyment of mankind
than we, perhaps, ever think.
Turnout this beautiful and wonder
full creation there is never ceasing mo-
ton without rest by night or day; ever
weaving to and fro. The vast cathe-
dral Of nature is full of holy scriptures
and shapes of deep mysterious mean.
Ing Into this vast cathedral comes
the human soul seeking its Creator.
| 1t was an ancient saying of the Per-
slams, that the waters rush from the
mountains, and hurry forth to find the
Lord of the Earth; and the fame of
fire when it awakes gazes no more
upon the ground but mounts heaven
ward to seek the Lord of Heaven, and
here and there the Earth has built the
great watch towers of the mountains
and they lift their heads far up into
the sky and gaze ever upward and
around to see If the Judge of the
World comes not.
| Thus in Nature herself, without
man, there he's waiting and hoping, a
looking and yearning after an un-
known somewhat. But in the soul of
man alone is this longing changed to
certainty and fulfilled.
another to picture the wonders and
beauties of Nature. And what could
be more beautiful than Lowell's words
when he says:
And what is so rare as day in June
Then, If ever, come perfect days
Then Heaven tries Earth II it be in
| tune,
And over it, softly her warm ear LAYS :;
Whether we look or whether we lis
| ten,
we hear life murmur, or see it glisten;
Every clod feels stir of might,
An instinct within it that reaches and
And cropping blindly above it for light,
Climbs to soul in grass and flowers {:
Now Is the high tide of the year,
And whatever of life hath ebbed away
Comes flooding back, with a ripply
Into every bare inlet and creek and
bay;
Now the heart is so full that a drop
overfills it,
We are happy now because God wills
it;
No matter how barren the past may
! have been,
Ills. enough for us now that the leaves
| are green,
Joy comes, grief goes, we know not
how;
Everything is happy now,
Everything is upward striving;
Ills as easy now for the heart to be
true,
AS for grass to be green or skies to
| be blue
IT'S the natural way of living"
| Villa Lundquist, Dist. No. 46.