Sacramento City College - Pioneer Yearbook (Sacramento, CA)

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nr ' , --—---—- v ] THE PIONEER Xs — Dreams of Time By Richard N. Greer OFTLY, the north wind whispers Through aspens bent with age; Slowly the hot sun withers The silent desert and sage. Time ever fast in its passage Marks the going and coming of life, While the ever increasing sorrow Reveals unceasing turmoil and strife. Pictures reveal the dreamer, Structures the artisan builder, While the ruins point to the failure And shifting sands to the sleeper. But life is unhesitant in passage, Fate is alone supreme: The north wind softly whispers, Dispelling our beautiful dream. Slowly the hot sun lowers, Slowly the daylight fades, Lighting all in glory With beautiful hues and shades. The silence heralds the twilight, The birds have made their nest, The sun’s last dying embers Gild the golden west. The monotonous chirp of the cricket, The darkness of a setting sun, Herald the coming of the morrow And mark this day as done. Charles Brown (Jan., 1905—Aug., 1927) Graduated June, 1927 Richard N. Greer (Sept., 1909—Nov., 1927) Entered Sept., 1927

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Gold Infinitely cool and gleaming—gold That slips through men ' s fingers in dreams So that they long, on waking, to hold Its coolness, arid know its gleams. Gold—like jar ojj and glistening lodestones, Irresistibly drawing men on Through a wilderness marked with white bones To the goal: through night to bleak dawn. Strangely useless and jutile and vain—it is sold For so high a value, that we Must think of the price they have paid for—just gold; Must ask, what reward can it be? Five

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THE PIONEER Table of Contents Book I Administration Book II Fine Arts Book III Activities Book IV Athletics Book V Fools’ Gold Seven