David B Oliver High School - Omicron Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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X GOLDEN POINT UNDER THE SUN Our city is the fair city With a gallant city's past A history, No mystery Progress pursuing fast. Here is a city, an ever progressing monument Chosen as a fort by our first president Strategic as it seemed to him Strategic it remains To a young struggling country Won by great men's pains. ln forest and in sunlit fields A bright young man of birds and flowers Planted appleseeds for hours. Sowing them with his own hand Giving them to settlers of the land. Mile after mile John's footsteps left an orchard file. O'Hara is remembered as a pioneer Of industry and business, business and industry. He built our first glasshouse The first brewery for our alehouse He owned the banks of two great rivers And built some ships for sea. Crude oil, rock oil From below the Pittsburgh topsoil Were distilled by the fire ln refineries of Samuel Kier. The high black chimneys issuing smoke Marked the hearth of the coal and coke Stone was quarried from Herron Hill Steel was made within the mill. A hot city Q With giant furnaces Threw showers of orange sparks in the skies And tunnels of gray smoke - Carnegie's industrial prize. Our city is a free song of progress And that it must remain A mill is not a building But a group of people Carrying out their labor To make their own domain. Here the city stands survivor through flood and fire, Catapulted to a golden point from a village mire. Home and harbor of three rivers over which bridges weld the city. Hills surrounding our Ohio behold a noble sight Fountain high and bridge spun low with templed buildings in the night. v Mary Kalberer

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