Christopher Columbus High School - Anchor Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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I Icnew a man with insight deep. I otten Ielt his thoughts to seep Into my Iarain, and there to stay, Recalled again another day. He told me once, this brilliant man, To get from lite all that I can. To kill my interfering conscience And drop idealistic nonsense. He told me lite was hard and cruel: To malce my Firm and lifelong rule. The drive for power, fight for wealth, And gain the top hy cunning stealth. He may he right. how can I tell? He made the top, I see that well. People groveled at his word. Everywhere his name was heard. I MAY BE WRONG But something in his lite was wrong, I really did not Icnow him long. His life came to its short lived end. And he met death without a friend. And since that day. I've never heard, From anyone a Icindly word About that man: hut hate instead. So not for me the life he led. I'm still only a callow youth: And who am I to doubt the truth? When he showed me a way ot living. Taking always, never giving. If that's the way to Iive, so he it. For me I simply cannot see it. Tho he be right and I he wrong. My life will he a joyous song. My means shall justify the end. My way towards simple truth shall wend. If this Ioe wrong, I cannot say. I want to Iive my Iife that way. GLADYS SILVERMAN 17

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MALAY SPRING SONG They say that spring comes quicicty in cold places. That suctcienty the fields anti trees turn green. I icnow this isnyt so from ati the traces Of winter and spring together that i've seen. Anci sucicteniy the fields anci trees turn green, Yet violets come in poois of mud and snow,-1 The winter and spring together that live seen. Anci there are other things that I can show. Yet vioiets come in poois of muci and snow, A tawny willow hranch is arched with frost, Anct there are other things that I can show Vvhich prove that spring comes early anci gets lost A tawny wiiiow branch is arched with frost,' Vvhite sweet, warm mists rise from the icy ground, Which prove that spring comes eariy and gets tost, But cioesnyt taice much searching to he found. Vvhite sweet, warm mists rise from the icy ground, Vvith earthy octors and the air's damp chili, Q fit cioesn't tatce much searching to he found., When night is startess, hazy, cooi anci stiii. With earthy odors and the air's clamp chiii, ti know that this is so. here are the traces., The night is startess, hazy, cool, anci still They say that spring comes quickly in coici places. Fromzixce VV1Nnu:R

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VERSE When from classes they return To don their coats and hats, It does not talce them long to learn That coats are used as mats. ROSANNE GRIMALDI A D WCRSE Here we sit and waste the day, So the teachers get their payg While our minds are off at wars, Vve must listen to these bores. CONSTANCE LOVECCHIO There once was a pupil named Glenn How he loved just to draw with a pen He would slcetch while in class Some pretty young lass Next term he toolc English again. ABE Scuwfxnrz Poor little Regents hook weary and worn, Your first page is tattered, your last page is torn. lnto a chaotic life you were horn, Battered and hullied and treated with scorn. TllCfC OIICC WHS H SCIllOl' Hamed Tom Vvho wanted to go to the prom. Of girls there were plenty, But his poclcets were empty, So he stayed right at home with his mom. MARIANNE KOLEN O, trashhaslcet upon the Hoor, 'Tis you. 'tis you whom I ahhor. You run my stoclcing, Scratch my leg, And though it's shoclcing, I do heg, O yOlI of Tama, wood. 01' straw, My lower limhs to please ignore. FLORENCE WINKLER In Columbus there once was a fellow, There once was a freshman called Percy Who wanted to he mild and mellow, On whom none of the seniors had mercy So Home Arts he studied, And kitchens he muddied, They directed him wrongly They cursed at him strongly He wound up instead malcing Jello. And this is the end of my versy. SONIA STABSKY 18 JUDITH WETSTEIN