Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn - Polywog Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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TI-IE PGLYWOG Year 13007: Qf flze PI1I'UfC'0lIIlI.C I11.91'z'1'1l1'e Qf Brooklyn ESTABLISHED 1887 PUBLISHED BY THE JUNIOR CLASS VOLUME XXVI EDITORIAL STAFF A. BERNARD IJIBNER I'f11'1'1'm'-hz-C'lzief TTENRY T. 1'TOTl'HKISS, JR. ARTHUR S. VVEBER fl.vs1'.w1f1111' Icfllilllkl' .flsszlstczrzi Editor TVALTER LINDENTIIAI. GERSON FRIEDMAN S1n'1'el1'e.w A H11 et ies CIIARLEE PEACE ARTHUR H. W EHLE .flrt College News ABRAHAM ROSENBEIRG I'Il'6'llZ.IIQ Departnlent BUSINESS STAFF LEROY JENKINS 1311s1'11e.w.w Mcmczger TVILLIAM F. CIIIGSTICR CARL INI. FREY ERIC S. TTARIIUN AYILLIAM H. DIEL'K

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The wapsihe Qllruss V I Where part the winding, poplar-shadowed ways, From His rude cross with time and lickeers brown, The image of the patient Christ looked down Through the long years, alike o11 sun-drenched days And when the winter, with its tender grays, Veiled all the landscape. From the little town The humble peasants brought oft-times a crown Of modest flowers in the Saviour's praise. Then the wild tribes that owned a fiercer god Smote all the smiling land and with their rain Of iron death laid low amid the slain- T he soldier-heroes with whose blood the sod lVas wet-the cross that simple faith had wrought, The cross their work of carnage set. at naught. France II Earth smiles again. The wounds upon her breast Are hid beneath her garments shimmering green. Beside the road the poplar's whispering screen Of sun-flecked leafage spreads and from her nest The meadow-lark wings upward. Here to rest lvere sweet. lvhere once the ancient shrine had been There rises now a lowlier cross and clean, Above the grave of one who gave his best. Out of the west across the sea. he came And here in alien soil his dust is laid Now ours forever, since his life had paid Its purchase price. With gratitude aflame , g . . I' he humble peasants deck his cross with flowers. YVho died for France and right, in those dark hours. -CAPTAIN Wn.LI.xi1 J. BERRY

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