Covenant College - Tartan Yearbook (Lookout Mountain, GA)

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Could these rough hands have reached the smallest flower or having reached Cursed to touch or even deify fwhich is also cursedj? The petals fall upon my dark flesh's Burning memory with each embrace. I must receive And yet this is no place for such a one With such eyes of earned innocence. These are no such hands That could have faith. Yet, once a man Pressed his lips Against a holy ember And was undone And was made clean. I would be taught and teach If that fire could blister This mute tongue And then perhaps, after the Perhaps the flower- Mine. fire, at l If there once were promises They shall be given as signs For seasons Or patriarchal stars Or the sun making the day Or breaking the darkness of night I have seen a pool I have seen a pool Water in the ground Do not be led away If I laugh as if to tell her- The water will always have its reflections It shall always for the burning hand Prove the cool answer To the animal demand. If there once was a sea If there once was a sea That needed crossing It shall be raised to the stars And wet their tired burning faces. And we shall walk upon the sand And walk upon the sand Reaving oranges from the palmls green hand If there were sands If there were deserts And even if we could become Thirsty together side by side Then these our own clean bones would lie And chirp until the heavens moved Down upon our desert And the world was water once more And the world was water once more. This shall be only a long never This shall be indeed a long never In our minds. For a forever It was promised that water Should be in pools onbf fNow fire must come entire for the first time being quenched in the earthless streamsl But still the water remembers If there once were promises They shall remain along with- You and I before the fire And stars which shall never die.

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Cease you hindrance, you hateful summer with spiteful greens and light. Let poor winter send the haughty sun to his farther palace of deeper night. Sweep your warmer sons Aeolus to a distant place And summon your hoary headed child from the freezing fields of space To sing the dirge for fecundity and verdant life. Embrace me with a frosty kiss on this forehead marked by strife. Come, O Winter, take away all promises of rebirth- Promise me brighter stars, Promise me barren earth, Promise me my Nepenthe, Promise me my Lethe, Promise me these things, for I would forget My painful fertile days, Heady summer and springtime's tiresome ways. Octoberl7 The round hollow of the moon's blind eye Filled my mind and troubled my sleep. I was touched by all her pale fingers. My cheek flushed and hair tossed as she caressed To feel and to know he, who had so long Gazed adoringly upon her. But as she touched and breathed into my forehead I saw she was a young girl. Her eyes seemed fixed on a deeper place in the heaven's field. Upon seeing her, I slowly began to yield To her urgent silences. She laughed a foreign laughter and drew Her pallid body to me. We sang all night to one another. I plucked moon blossoms for her But she could not see. I fell at her feet in tears. The round hollow of the moon's blind eye Filled my mind And we ride the sky-tides together. We laugh a foreign laughter and feast on blossoms of light And sing to the earth that we are blind. Diana shot her curved bow Amidst mad moonlight Beneath dark shadows. Beyond the trivial path The mute field Held with moist hands a tunic And the moon mirrored by th As the waters enveloped One who knew power, Pale light and silence. The night so easily won The heart so easily won From behind the vinessfallen From the trees, wisteria. Was he willing, was he willing For the hounds to blindly do their killing? And then was he satisfied with sleep? And was he carried over the sacred stream? Was he dead or Merely sleeping Almost touching, Almost dreaming? e pool shattered

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Bzblzcal studzes provides fra mewo rk The significance of the Depart- ment of Biblical Studies at Covenant lies in the fact that at Covenant the Bible provides the framework for all the other disciplines. There are four teach- ers in the department, all of which serve as chairman on a rotation basis. Mr. Anderson has been with Covenant since 1964. At present he is teaching doctrine and the book of Hebrews. He is involved greatly in the ministry of the New City Fellowship. His teach- ing is characterized by his zeal for the kingdom and the new humanity in the risen Christ. Raymond Clark, too, has been at Covenant for over ten years. Currently he is teaching courses in Old Testament history to freshmen, as well as leading another class through Calvin's Institutes. Mr. Clark serves as a presbyter in the Reformed 1 , Presbyterian Church on Lookout Mountain, where he also leads a prayer group. Dr. Gilchrist adds a significant and necessary dimension to Bib- lical Studies with his knowledge of the Old Testament. He teaches Prophets of Israel and book courses in Isaiah, Deuteronomy, Psalms, and DanielfRevelation. 'hxA 1 1 Besides his role as an administra- tor fDirector of Institutional Researchj, Dr. Gilchrist is also involved with World Presbyterian Missions. The newest member of the Department is Dr. Jim Hurley. His contributions to us include teaching in the areas of doctrine, Foundations of Modern Culture, ,H 3 an-v - I . X MT?-