OCR FAREWELL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 316, 16 October 1875, Page 2

OCR FAREWELL.

Yes, well do I remember, Kate, Our last and fond farewell; Our parting nt the rustic gate That opened from the silent dell. Where waring trees seem’d murmuring A tremulous “ good-bye,” And streamlets silver tongue did sing Our farewell tenderly. The distant stars seem’d from above To shine with smiles on thee ; With smiles so sad, though full of loro With your good bye to me. The gentle flow’rs wept their adieu, The silv’ry moonlight play’d Around your face, revealing true The softened light and shade. Ah ! none can tell how sadly bright, Through life’s rough stormy sea, The memory of that long-past night Returns at times to me. Yet, one hope riseth from the wreck Of dreams that once were mine, Perhaps, that sky whose stars we seek Were coretous of thine. And now the stars shine sadly bright, O’er memory’s tablet pale, Revealing with their dreamy light A sad, unfinished tale.

CO-EDUCATION OF THE SEXES. The following is an extract from a response by Mrs. Emma 8. Dillingham, to the above toast, at the Alumni meeting of Oahu College, Sandwich Islands -. — “ Mothers often inxilogise for awkward sons by saying, ‘They never had any sisters, and so grew up without the refining influence of female society ; ’ and for timid little girls they say, ‘ They had no brothers to help them to get used to the ways of the world,' and regret in both instances is implied, Now, why deny the boys and girls zest, the privilege, the stimulus of copying each other in the transition stage, during the years when the characters of each are most pliable, when t|ie weak can be strengthened, the rough polished, by the daily strife towards a common intellectual goal ? “ For ourselves, we are grateful for the liberal-mindedness of Punahou, that the privileges aforementioned were therein found by us in years gone by. We recall our first translation in Virgil’s 2Bneid, when a sentence was so strongly rendered that all the boys in the school laughed at us. Pride rose up in arms, but with ail modesty we will add, that they never had occasion to laugh again at our translations. . “ Memory brings to the mind the rainy ' days, when more girls and boys stemmed the floods on horseback, much to th® chagrin of the boys. Of the games, at ball, when the boys were glad to choose, some of the girls on their sides. Of the girls’ target practice, the interest of which was greatly heightened by the encomiums bestowed by the young lords of creation. Then the fern-fever when the rarest and most beautiful specimens could be obtained only by the longer, stronger arms of the indispensable boys. And yet again the evenings spent in star-gazing, the natural consequence of our studying astronomy. “Decide it as we will, young people are expected at a little later day to meet and mingle, and find many pleasant things in common ; else would all domestic relations prove a sad farce. How better can they be prepared for such happy conditions in life than by the pleasant clash of elements, inherit in both classes, during the days of school life P”