Arts High School - Vignette Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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THAT WE MAY DREAM By BARBARA SUCHY us dream! O you who do so oft remonstrate with us When far away our thoughts are called unto the hidden realm Of imagination, you do not understand. We are young and day-dreams, like the sirens, beckon to us And we must heed. “Work, you say. This is a world of action and its god is the machine. It sets our paco and we must follow, Else be crushed in the whirlpool of rushing humanity Or dashed upon the rocks of failure and despair. This is a world of action! True, the mass-production line does rule our time and tide, But hearken to the Dreamer. Dreams lay the plans for empires. Dreams arc the tiny flamos of zeal which burn in every breast, Which lend us courage, determination, a goal which we may reach. This world was built on Dreams. Before the man of action, came the man of Dreams. Ere the first brick is laid to a building, the artist, the architect Must first have designed it from his imagination—his Dreams. We are yet young—let us dream. Soon we. too. will be caught in the violent, swirling tide Of mankind. But remember. Ere you arouse us from our reverie, shattering our Dreams Like broken crystal chandeliers—a heap of heartbreaking, Worthless fragments—remember this: Progress is spurred by Dreams. So give us Peace That we may dream.