Dickinson High School - Gnome Yearbook (Jersey City, NJ)

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I THE MYSTERY He turned his eyes away from life And gazed far out beyond the pale And wondered why, no human eye Had ever sought to pierce the vail That separates mortality From that dark land beyond the sea Of Styx, why all the mystery? Why mortal man has never learned What fate there lies for him in store When from this earth he must depart For habitation on that shore And pondered in perplexity Why thru the ages there should be That silent unsolved mystery. Why souls departed ne'er return With tales of wondrous sights they've So that we, too, may share with'them The joys of which we can but dream What unseen forces hold them there And with them what treasures share That to return, they do not care. Why there is but the one passport For entree to that promised land Across its portals is inscribed To enter death must take your hand No happy medium can there be To cross that dark uncharted sea And reach the shore of Mystery. Said he, by death it must reveal Its hidden treasures will unfold l'll pay the price that I may feast Mine eyes upon its gifts untold I will not wait for death to ride That I will seek by suicide So in that land I can abide. Again to earth I will return And in the world will famous be When I relate of what I learn And solve that age long mystery He died-the world a-waited tense First with excitement-then suspense But naught was heard, save silence. You would control infinity? Thou fool of puny human frame Dened your God, exiled your soul To worship that false goddess-fame SCE I1 Think you more great in power than He Who ruled that till eternity It should remain a-Mystery. -IRENE NICHOLSON

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919 3 Qi wg QW, 5 u CL Page four E THE SYMBOLIC THEME Humanity, from our earliest records of history, has had symbols to express those things which they feared, adored, hated, admired or cherished. Creeds, empires and nations are founded on one or a combination of these characteristics. The highly imaginative human mind always perceptibly keen and eager to paint pictures, formulates, grasps and establishes symbols. In perpetual procession through the pages of Time, we have had the symbolic representations of all the outstand- ing emotions and movements in history. In religion we have the bad spirits, the ogres, the devil, the good spirts, God, the angels. In the empires we have had the symbols of strength and authority, the armies and the officials with all that they represented. In the nations we have the signs of fading monarchies, dictatorships, Fascistic, Communistic, and Republican Democracy. We of this powerful country are indeed blessed and fortu- nate in these troubled days. When others are continually using for their living symbols those of discord and death,- hate and armaments,-we have for ours those of unity and peace. The eagle, his strong wings unfurled, powerful claws and beak, and his clear sharp eyes, Hies above a nation tied strongly together by the pillars of unity and common consent .... Democracy. His main task is not to tear and scatter others, but to collect and hold together his own. The Laurel wreath within which we have enclosed the Father of our country-is our symbol of peace, around him, who was First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen. Our symbols are those of 'Unity-Democracy-Peace.