Brigham Young University - Banyan Yearbook (Provo, UT)

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AN A Triune O France, thy valor and thy sacrifice Where Wars mad, seething monsters stand. Have proved thy purple lilys regal right To royal robes through all the land; And England ' s rose of crimson hue. But symbolizes that great part. In mighty deeds of life and love. That springs sublimely from her heart. E ' en so the goldenrod in glory blooms, W here every test of crucial power Hath found enthroned a freedom, pure, divine That shares unstinted her rich dower. Blest triune — lily, rose, and goldenrod — Within this prayerful, heartwrung hour We do beseech. May God from his great throne Make sure thy faith and righteous power. Aretta Young. Writlen for The Banyan, in explanation of the following page, in which the flowers of the Allies were used in working out the motif. ff If iV ' - ' ■ :•%•! V.-l

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uill put enmity between thee and the woman, between thy seed and her seed, it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Here ' s enmity, not kinship, directly established between brutality ! and humanity. The serpent still strikes upward to poison and kill, the man must strike downward to repel and crush the viper. Has brute force survived? Which is now on the road to survival, the dove or the hawk? The lamb or the lion? And in all of this survival, to what is it most indebted — to the nature and power of the creatures or to the interference of higher intelligence than they? Goliath has once again appeared on the hill, and in the name of brute force is defying the armies of the living God. We have accepted his challenge, a hundred million strong, and in the name of Him who planned our agency in that premortal state, where we forced the foe and fought for freedom — we advance, shouting, Let the hero born of woman crush the serpent with his heel. G. H. BRIMHALL JOS. B. KEELER AMOS N. MERRILL