J H Rose High School - Tau Yearbook (Greenville, NC)

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Ghosts. These halls would be full of them if there were room. But there is no room. There is scarcely time to speak of ghosts. This place no longer belongs to them, for they have served it, and it them, so that their destiny lies far beyond it. 19

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The time is passing faster now, because the end is near. It is Spring. The gym floors are still shined and the bleachers are still filled sometimes, but the fight is gone from them until next year. Pitcher ' s mounds become alive again, and the dust hangs on the warm, air. The people walking between the shacks are driven by no cold winds, and the birds on the other side of the wall in room 125 have good reason to sing. The stadium is still young. It is haunted by only a few ghosts now, but even the ghosts are still young. Soon there will be living ghosts upon those steps, apparitions floating white-clad through the night, across a plat- form and onto the ground. They will pass solemnly into the future, and go on to greater things. The people who have come to see the ghosts will file out slowly, the lights will dim, and the dark, massive monster will hear only the echoes of voices and feel only the footfalls of shadows. 18

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Theirs is the search. Theirs are all the battles. They have a way to follow, Wolfe ' s lost lane-end into heaven, Longfellow ' s foot- prints in the sands. They leave behind them irrevocable things — things and people of youth, and imagination, which they can never recapture. It is unbearably sad. But they own the future, and that is un- bearably tantalizing. They possess the world if they desire it. For they are closer to reading the scriptures of the sea; they are walking once more upon a cloud; they may even hope to understand the voice upon the wind. 20