Mitchell College - Thames Log Yearbook (New London, CT)

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PRAYER FOR GALATEA Alas . . . will I never fully know you? I g What fragile blossoms of your dreams will I crudely trample underfoot I while stumbling in the dark? I need to know A that inner lotus with petals of flame ' imprisoned beneath my touch. I will not be condemmed like-my ancestors - one by one they died, ' . pleading to Webster's ghost for some final earthly meaning A as-they vanished into the night forever. Now nothing remains but their jumbled bones and impotent legacy. Deep within our trembling flesh I lie the secrets of the primeval rite - inscriptions on the Book of the Living Earth lost long ago amidst f the labyrinth of epitaphs V left us by our forbears. Have we buried the ancient tongue of our eternal childhood? Alas.. .. , will I never fully know you? - - Doug Frost 3

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REFLECTIONS ON THE LIFE OF A SNOWFLAKE Speak to me sweet snowflake - lovely, lacy snowflake, ' silent, soft, and ,peaceful drifting down +- down - I . ' 'down - Born above, beyond me by nature's glorious wonders. You joyously burst to full life and skyls dreary darkness drown. Tell me of your journey - was it far from heaven? ' How fare all the angels? - On you they'd cast no frowns. How I love to watch you, be ' gently tumbling toward me. Intricate - yet simple, One true pleasure- have I found. ,I Precious little snowflake, I so much long to hold you. If one touch you'd afford me Oh, my heart would glad aboundl. But now, farewell dear snowflake fast the target youfre approaching, p And high spirits quickly dwindle ' as you melt into the ground . . . I Lorrie Kern 1 .