Quincy High School - Goldenrod Yearbook (Quincy, MA)

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Author . Datum. Dr Mairier

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ON A RUINED MILL They say ii used to be a mill This pile of broken rock and stone That's now so crumbling, green with liibss . . . There's a tale to spin, if it but will. Standing as it does alone. It sees once more the gain and loss In wealth — and hope. It sees a train Of wagons coming through the heat And dust to find a western home. It hears the cries and feels the pain Of battle. Blood and water meet Where men have killed; and waters foam And wash away the Indian blood And that of toiling pioneers Who suffered from the redman’s hate. And now the river is in flood, And heavy are the settlers’ fears Lest crops be swept away. But fate Becalms the swelling tide: their land Is safe and rich — and high and dry. Then one day. quite by chance, there’s found A gleaming hardness in the yellow sand; And sharply comes the frenzied cry Of “Gold! Much Gold!” — the luring sound That ruins lives. So from the din There rise some hopes reborn, some lives Remade. Great cities come — their beauty Smirched with dirt. Things new begin To crowd the old while mankind strives . . . Yet always watching, always still. There lingers there the ruined mill. James Moulton Novel “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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“GREETINGS FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES . . .” When we receive our little greeting, We and the draft-board have a meeting. If we do not come at first request, Pretty soon we re under arrest. Once we’re there in the rush and din. Doctors, nurses, and questions begin. Before we know it, we re sworn in! Strong men are needed for land and for sea. But why on earth do they have to pick me? William White HANDS Whenever I look at hands, I wonder what fortune lies There in the lines and ridges; What beauty they might sculp; What murders they might commit; What lives they might save; What novels they might write; What sight they might give; What paintings they might do; Strange they must submit So often to evil. Lorraine Ferris M ovie “Goinc; My Way”