Thiel College - Endymon Yearbook (Greenville, PA)

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One thing was Certain: That John and Stanley and Helen and Marv and the baby Steven Must be kept out of the mills and the mill life, even ll it meant that her man and she would break Under the brunt of it: she had talked it through with him IX hundred times . . . l,et her eyeballs split, her head swim The window must have its Curtain ! III. Lately Steve had stopped talking altogether X-Vhen he slumped in with his dinner pail and heavily lflunehed over his food. So Anna and the children let him bei She was afraid to ask him why or whether As he sat with his eyes glued On vacancy. So Anna and the children let him brood. Only sometimes he would suddenly look at them and her In a ghastly hxed blur Till a vast nausea of terror and compassion stood Blunclering in her heart and swarming in her blood- And she shivered and knew somehowthat it was not good. And then it happened: Spring had come 'l',ike the silver needle-note of a hte, Like a white plume and a green lanee and a glittering knife And a jubilant drum. But Steve did not hear the earth hum: Under the earth he could feel, merely the 'fever And the shock of roots oilf steel foreverg April had no business with the pit Or the people-call thenrpeople-who breathed in it. The mill was Steve's huge harlot and his head Lay between breasts of steel on a steel bed. l,.oeked in a steel sleep and his hands were riveted. s

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GN I ll ON T is with mixed feelings of trepidation and pleas- ure that the 1938 Endymion is presented. Never before has it been the aim of a Thiel publication to devote its pages to the furtherance of poetry, or the arts. However, to the Class of 1939, publishers of this volume, the task which we have undertaken has been both a pleasant and a worthy one. It is, therefore, with sincere pride that we dedicate this book to Mr. joseph Auslander, and to Steel , the work of his pen. Both the poet and the poem are worthy of far more tribute than we can pay here. Mr. Auslander is one of America's outstanding younger poets--a man whose art and whose vitality have been hailed by those themselves great. I-le is a man who sees and feels much of the truth of the world, and in his presen- tation there is power. It is little wonder that Joseph Auslander was chosen to fill the post of Consultant in English Poetry, recently created by the library of Congress at W3Shi1lg'fOH. As for the poem itself, our enthusiasm for it is only natural, for in its hne social idealism there is a strong appeal to youth. No further praise is needed here. It is our conviction that Steel speaks for itself .... 10