James Monroe High School - Monrovian Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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THE SENIOR BOOK , Uhr Gthilh Grew CEIDP1' QCOM-5 sky so close its glory blinded! His soul sang. The music sprang to his lips, yet he knew no words-was dumb. With passing days, he saw the dark tentacles of the smoky city reach further aiieldg and when he sought to guard his loves he found his friends mutilating these last, lovely thingsfsaw a golden minnow gasping on the grass and a wounded bird in swift, aching fall., And so, learning of men, he gave them up-and the earth. But the sky remaidetd Riclwrd's as as at as ak as Richard was a young man on the verge of life. A man-a poet and' a walker of skies . . . seeking with words to resist the heavy odor of the heaving earth. Richard walked in still wonder. He cried, The morn is my Mother, the sun is my Mistress. p I am a wanderer of the skies! Thru a silver rain of stars I go- Heeding lest I crush a star unaware And it fall sighing to earth. Richard walked in wonder-and Life waited at the turn of the path. is as :af as ac af He married and they whispered, 'LNow he'll settle down. Richard laughed. He bragged, L'It has become necessary to chain my body in the city, to become again of earth and moon. But listen-my spirit is ever free-I can always touch the stars. After a while he forgotg nor did he remember when his wife cleaned out his desk and got rid of his scribblings. It was so very easy t0 forget other things when one moved in a world such as this-steel amid smoke and rearing buildings gutted with struggling men. All unknowingly, one became a self' important atom in the parade of progress. Unknowingly, Richard stepped into the groove that had lain waiting from the beginning. Richard, coming home long after the dusk of the day, watched with tired eyes a falling star, thinking idly, If I could catch it, my wife would have a diamond star to wear at her breast. But the sky is too far away- and how distant and barren it is. l Richard, coming home and lying down beside his wife, closed his eyes and saw a star falling. ' Senior Class-Nineteen

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