Salt Lake Herald | 1904-07-07 | Page 7 | Viola Vermiselli's Graduation Essay

Viola Graduation Essay Milwaukee Sentinel THE DEATH OF SOCRATES Hela HeIs dead In silent awe we contemplate the life and works of the great Egyptian phil philosopher philosopher whose teachings have come comedown comedown down through the ages side Bide by side with those of his comrades Dante and Ulysses In those days the sword of intellect had not pierced through the armor of Ignorance and superstition and I just know that Socrates dear dearold dearold old man hardly dared to call his soul his own When he was a mere mere youth but stay It is not of his life but butof of his death that I would speak Think of him classmates What solemn thoughts must have come to him as he sat in the county jail with no one to comfort him save a few hun bun hungry gry mice and a hardhearted who give him a chew Xo No wonder he be exclaimed It must be so Plato thou reas well Lila Life In the lockup certainly is dis disagreeable agreeable When the hour he fal faltered faltered not The taunted him through the bars and the cub who was doing the police run came for an in interview Interview Did he get it Well I guess nit The deathless philosopher scorned the power of the press and had always refused to pay his subscription Calm Calmly ly II dispassionately he drained the hem hemlock hemlock lock cup smacked his lips asked for fora a chaser which was denied him and died O 0 Death where Is thy victory Show Shew me And now dear classmates let us learn from the noble example before us that all Is not gold that lies glittering beyond the Alps and let us If It we be called upon to drain the deadly cup i of hemlock get away with it as grace gracefully fully as did dear old Soc Remember when he hit that there hemlock he going up against any soft drink drinkad and ad let his deathless decease ever stand as a beacon for nobler and bet better tOt ter deaths on our part Lives of dead ones all remind us We can canter up the flue And can leave the earth behind us Like them ancients used to do