McKeesport High School - Yough A Mon Yearbook (Mckeesport, PA)

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' ' 1 V The Creation And God stepped ,out on space, And Heglooked around and said, r l'm sIonely-- t , l'Il make me a world. ' T f A s far as the eye of God could see Darkness covered everything, y i Blacker than a hundred midnights r Down in a cypress swamp. t Then Godsmiled, . . l And the. light broke, l Q il And the'ida'rkn'ess rolled up onlone side, r if Andthe light stood shining on the other, And God .said,M That's good! Then God reabhed ourand took the light in His hands, And ,Godrolled thelight around in His hands, , Until He made the ,sung r ' And He set that sun a-blazingin the heavens. Andthe light that ,was left from makinglthe sun God gathered up in a shining ball I And flung against the darkness, g T f Spangling the night with the moon and stars. '1 . n VX wg --, .- Then down between s g T The darkness andthe light ' He hurled the world, And God said, That's goodl ' Then God Himself stepped. down+ a And -the sun was on His right hand, And the moon was on His left: The stars were clustered about His head, y And the earth was under His feetgf H ' And God walked, and where He trod His footsteps hollowed the valleys out h And bulged the mountains up. i ThentHe stopped and lookedand saw, That the earth was hot and barren. r A H So God stepped over to the 'edge of the world And He spat out the seven seasg -, He batted His eyes andthe lightnings flashed, He clapped His hands and the thunders rolled And the waters above the earth came down, Thecooling waterscame down.

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A . , A A l i Tit gngfhqgg grass sprouted, A y A 1 A ' e red flowers blossomed tT 3 ': gee pointed his finger to the sky, ' 'FTTRL k5spread out his arms, ' , fcuddled down in the hollows of the ground, q i H T s ran down to the sea, s b illed again, i P A i' i - How appeared, 'A - 'H itse'ff'1around His shoulder, rl, Va. A TV' J' t l QJHNW M dd His arm and He waved His hand KQV t el a and over the land, ,,A,, i V BFing'f0rth!,4Bring forth! Ve And quicker than God could drop -His hand, Fis owls' A V A ! nd birds as A i Swamlthe rivers and thelseas, ' gists an.d.gthe woods, , An T A air with their wings, ' And G6'd said, That's good! A +fThe1l r?51 walk' -ed around 5 -And'Gdd lcfokecfaround: f f0n aflithahjethad made. . e lookedat His sun, H Q. V is moon, f'ind41E g,,His world a if me l 1 s W' ' With all its living things, n And Gold said, l'm lonely still. Then God sat down A A On the side of a hill where He could think, By a deep,'wide. river He sat down, V With His head in Hislhandls, A . God thought and thought, ' Till He thought, l'll make ,mesa rnan!',' I Up from the bed of the river A God scooped the clay, ' And by the bank of-,the river He kneeled Him down, g , - f And there the great God Almighty, Who lit the-sun and fixed it in the sky, - flung the stars tothe most far cornerof the night Who-rounded the earth in the middle of.l-lids hand-A This Great God-, ' l Like a mother bending over. her baby, Kneeled down in the dust , p Toiling lover a lump of clay 'A Till He shaped it-,in His own image, Then into it He blew the breath of life, And. man became a living soul. Amen. Amen., Who ' I -James Weldon Johnson ' A Photo by David Lawrence Snyder.