John Adams High School - Clipper Yearbook (Ozone Park, NY)

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CHAIN ED I cannot bid love come or go at will As though it were a light switched on and off, Instead of some great orb whose glories spill Across life's threshold with the glow of dawn. Nor am I joshua, to command the sun Stand still in heaven for a full day's space, So when love wills, it comes, and is gone While I am panting still, to see its face. There have been those who planted careful seeds And said, When April comes then love will bloom. So versed were they in all its ways and needs, For them it flowered yielding rare perfume. However much of prayer or care I gave, I have not been love's master, but love's slave. Marie Candide Pepe 'Till il-.Il'l'L-ld

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DILEMMA Our life is but a mystery, And we, the mystified, Scan the pages of historyg And to our wondering gaze, O'er men and deeds now glorified, All seems a winding maze. To what doth this labyrinth lead? What means our dreary past? From tranquil realms of silent dead Doth some response arise? Are we to endless torment cast, Or rise we on wings to azure skies? Unanswered may our question be, In patience we but wait, Until mid glory we shall see Things that are now concealed. For in that heavenly state These mysteries will lie revealed. William Yozmg l-r's--nE- 1n.un'z 1..n4

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GN BLINDN ESS 'i J BY JOSEPHINE ATANASIO f 4' ' gf x 4 A X X I... wonder how many of us ever paused to think of the actual significance of eyes. When on a beauti- ful spring day, one is 'Out in the country admiring the beauty of nature in all its manifestations, it is the eyes which transmit to the brain the picture. In the daily activities of human lfe, one sees al- most unconsci-ously the various objects, the picture of which is trans- mitted to the brain where comparisons, additions and subtractions take place. It is the eyes which in working like the lens of a camera impress that perfect and complicated film that is the brain. Very few, though, realize the importance of this most vital com- bination of organs that empowers us to read many fascinating and entertaining books, that affords us the opportunity of visualizing the real beauty of scenery and landscape, that gives us the first-hand in- formation and conceptions of the material things of life. Very few give a thought to those unforttmates whom nature has deprived of sight. For them, life is continuous darkness, irrespective of whether the sun is shining brightly or the night is covered with its black man- tle, this part of the earth. What a suffering it is for them! Those non- seeing eyes are for them as a solid non-transparent door which shuts the body off from the outside world. For them the light, the sun, the outside world are not realities, but only the result of the stretch- ing of their imagination. Think of their constant painstaking endeavors to move and pro- gress with the rest of the world around them. Theirs is the desire to become useful, theirs the ambitions to educate themselves, theirs the desire to be as little as burden as possible. Yet most of them are courageous and brave enough to face the many difficulties of life and dedicate themselves with great self-abnegation to alleviate the sufferings of humanity. Their hearts, through continuous suffering, have become more sensitive, and they not only suffer for themselves but for others as well. l8 l Ii-lE- il-.Il'l'L.Id