Edgewood School - Bridge Yearbook (Greenwich, CT)

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Letter Mrs. Joseph E. Davies, the original owner of this house, told me that the Bridge was taken down three times in the process of developing the beauty of correct proportion, balance and stability. A raised platform was built under the window of her room so she might sit there and enjoy its lines. I think the builders wouldfeel rewarded if they but knew its subtle influence upon the many Edgewood children who have passed over it these many years. Those who come back usually pay their respects to the Bridge as though registering their return! We hope this Senior Class will have this same feeling and remember that Edge- wood's future is clearly dependent upon those who, physicially or spiritually, recross the Bridge. Deaf

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The Bridge Builder An old man going a lone highway Came at the evening, cold and gray, To a chasm vast and wide and steep, With waters rolling cold and deep. The sullen stream had no fears for him, The old man crossed in the twilight deep, But he turned when safe on the other side, And built a bridge to span the tide. Old man, said a fellow pilgrim near, You are wasting your strength with building here. Your journey will end with the close of day, You never again will pass this way. You've crossed the chasm, deep and wide, Why build you this bridge at eventide? The builder lifted his old gray head. Good friend, in the path I have come, he said, There followeth after me today A youth whose feet must pass this way. The chasm that was as nought to me To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall beg He, too, must cross in the twilight dim- Good friend, I am building this bridge for him. -DROMGOOL E

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THE BIG HOUSE THE SCHOOL BUILDING