Anderson High School - Indian Yearbook (Anderson, IN)

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W --- .f, V -F-f - f -f .,, And all around hi1n sang the birds, A willow spray caressed his cheek, Q lg I E 'T' X -'is .v w , hifi r max W 'WM!l 5 by Pi D' ra S2- 5 W' UQ :T I3 0 c: 9. 5 cv :T CL E. I3 I3 2 '-s O 2 rn D-1 5-' N . Yet these mattered not, only the scout canoes of the White man Coming on, and ever coming. hate, Swiftly, l1e unslung his bow and fitted arrow to it But, somehow then, the brave could not see the white man. ' U Instead, he visioned prairie schooners I Rumbling, and cracking, and rattling, Over the hill, an endless stream of them Swaying clumsily after the bowing oxen, And before them, a horde of Indians Retreating slowly, but always re- treating. The brave dimly understood. Silently he returned his arrow to its quiver, ' And slung his bow to his back. The craft had passed from sight but he knew it not. Drooping like a sapling bowed with new-fallen snow, ' He trudged to his hidden canoe, Stepped into it and drifted off towards the west, The lone brave Stood, with bowed head and folded arms, A And sorrowed for his race. He Drifted on and on, till against a dark sky, he was but a darker shadow Blotting out a few stars. -Ruth Hughes Saga of Steam and Steel fMay 10, 1869, the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads met at Promontory Point, Idaho, completing the first coast-to-coast railway in the United States.D East and west the tracks lay, White in the steady sun. East and west were the hot, pale slopes of the Utah plains. The sky was hot, blue procelain Veined with white, where the horizon sat a wavering rim, To the glimmering bowl. There, in the pulseless, undeflected light, Men clotted about the spot, where now, at last, These two long, shimmering lines of rails were jofined, Talking in high excited voices, as those last spikes Joined the East to the West. Neil Morgan turned from his place, at the edge of the crowd, To where another man at a table, Sat staring into an empty glass. K'Well Neil, 'it's finished, Walt said Without raising his eyes. Then he stood, With- a smile like splintered light, In his dark, sun-puckered eyes, No more driving a bunch of coolies evil as sinj No more in the noon heat, fighting Ccontinued on page 705 twenty-six