Georgetown University - Ye Domesday Booke Yearbook (Georgetown, DC)

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% z Martyrs ' Xast i our while yet this pitiful hour r emains, we stand hiefore the summoning Eyes, the Glance, the Voice bitter and faint and stern. we cry to You Lover of men our lives are the inept, the painful line traced by blind fingers in the restless dust: what surety, what thin dusklight was ours sinks to an evening lit with lies, the world swings back to its irrevocable blank wall and powers rise and winds and chaos wrangle and stars grow unsure. we cry to You Lover of men what things above his life a man must give this moment witnesses, this moment takes : we who loved surpassingly Your peace have been to peace a stranger on the street : we and our dreams are the anonymous reckoned with drifted leaves long underfoot from a long-stricken tree : we who have cried Your love upon the loveless, yield You back a cry, a moment ' s mote of dust uptossed in storms of dust, and tears, our secret tears the long night holds them, and the forest floor sighs with the fragile bloodroot for their falling and the outcreeping salty tides of life keep them as self to self, and know them not. we cry to You this insupportable now, this present hell puts heaven to the rack: the great wound, life, clots at the sickening heart, the spirit ' s fierce elation greys and shrinks and trails off to a small, a coward cry and what remains, and what survives the ash? the creak and shift of time erases us to-day in fire, erases on a day even the ' Jesu ' from the pillaring oak. . . how terrible, how few the things that stand straight at the stake with us to right and left known at the bitter now for what they are: ' nothing and You abiding to the end. l -Daniel J. Berrigan, S.J. 24

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4 i HE HEALY Building, with its spires rising high above the city of Washington, symbolizes the spirit of Alma Mater for every Georgetown alumnus. Architecturally world-famous, it was erected, while the Reverend Patrick J. Healy, S.J., was President. The School of Foreign Service, the Riggs Memorial Library and the President ' s Office are all part of its attractive interior. I