Rogers Hall School - Splinters Yearbook (Lowell, MA)

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An individual is more apt to change perhaps than all the world around him. Daniel Webster SE IORS

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A MESS-AGE FROM THE HEADMASTER In order to produce a fruit, a flower Must die. The bowl of every star-filled night, Emptied into grayness, swiftly fills with light And yields its stillness to the waking hour. Each soaring summer cloud gives down its shower Each glistening winter day must fade from sight, And every whirling golden leaf in flight Gives witness to an inelastic power. Yet every change whose moment seems malign, Whose advent so conducive to regret, ls but the singing of another voice, Grating at its onset, growing line, As with past voices it is gaily met To swell life's chorus, sing out, and rejoice. 7

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