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Originally posted by PhoenixAzul
We sang Linger at my GS camp as well. Our candlelight ceremony was really special too. It started with the camp director with only their candle lit and all the girls around the pool, and the camp director would read the first paragraph. After the first paragraph there was apause and the candlelight would be past from girl to girl. After the poem, the candles were left to float on the pool.
"a candle is but a simple thing
it starts with just a bit of string
yet dipped and dipped with patient hand
it gathers wax upon the strand
until complete and snowy white
it gives at last, a lovely light
life is so like that bit of string
each deed we do a simple thing
Yet day-by-day if on life's strand
We work with patient heart and hand
It gathers joy, makes dark days bright
And gives at last a lovely light."
I want to use that for final party SO FREAKING BADLY. The reason we used it at girl scout camp was to inspire the girls to become women. Even when I became a counselor, I cried every single time we had candlelight. Singing Taps and the camp song was always really really hard.
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That's really beautiful, PhoenixAzul!!!
You know, I think you should use it maybe for initiation if you want to (and if it's okay with the other girls in your chapter, of course), because if it can inspire young Girl Scouts to become women, then I think it could also have the power to inspire newly-initiated Tau Delta sisters to give their heart and soul to the sorority, or if you're using it for pref night, it could inspire the rushees to listen to their hearts, and do their best to become an asset to whichever group they choose in the end. By the way, I'm sorry if suggesting that you use that song for initiation crosses any kind of "secret ritual" boundaries, I just thought that since it's already meaningful to you, and appropriate for the situation, it'd be perfect.