Florence Marion University - Prism Yearbook (Florence, SC)

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Dr. William Patterson, Provost Of The University Gf South Carolina Dr. John J. Dulfy, Assistant Provost, Regional Campuses , N x .ff ,, f ft 1, i V 1 ' in K ,af Thomas F. Jones Sc. D. President Of The University Of South Carolina

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So long So long as the void ls hysterical, bolted out, you float on nothing But procedure alone, Eating, sleeping like a man Deprived of the weight of his own And all humanity in the name Of a new life and through this, making new Time slowly, the moon comes. Its mountains bulge They crack they hold together Closer spreading smasheddcrust Of uncanny rock ash-glowing alchemicalizing the sun With peace: with the peace of a country Bombed-out by the universe. You lean back from the great light shattered face the pale blaze Of God-stone coming Close too close, and the dead seas turn The craters hover turn . Their dark side to kill The radio, and the one voice Of earth. You and your computers have brought out The silence of mountains the animal Eye has not seen since the earth split, Since God first found geometry Would move move ln mysterious ways . You hang Mysteriously, pulling the moon-dark pulling And solitude breaks down Like an electrical system: it is something Else: nothing is something Something I am trying To say O God Almighty! To come back! To complete the curve to come back Singing with procedure back through the last dark Of the moon, past the dim ritual Random stones of oblivion, and through the blinding edge Of moonlight into the sun And behold The blue planet steeped in its dream Of reality, its calculated vision shaking with The only love . Apollo from the EYEPFBEATERS, BLOOD, VICTORY, MADNESS, BUCKHEAD AND MERCY by James Dickey. Copyright 1968, 1969, 1970 by james Dickey. Reprinted by permission of Doubleday S Company, Inc. -1

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Dr. H. V. Varney, Director Of Florence Regional Campus 6 . . - .....5 re Q Central Pee Dee College District Board .4 DT j ll lS1oI.t-f., Xkilliam R. l31xultly, C. Dewey Munn, james C. l-looks, jr., joseph B. Al b l I