Thomas Wingate Andrews High School - Reverie Yearbook (High Point, NC)

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Prelude In the beginning was a choice: To be damned in black or to be Praised in white; yet to us was This choice given and not given. For who did cry aloud from his mother’s womb “I shall be white” or to overcome in the ebony way. The simple mind sees not the way That colors do not make a soul, But mixtures of the good and Bad in mankind all do make From black and white a vari-colored rainbow. eas

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Small and jumping from leaf to grass, The rays are pulled in to give them strength. Taking away the beams of his life To give themselves life but with certain death. Is life this mean to the innocent? Is there no time to rest, To take a look at what we are doing; God help us! We know not We are innocent of life. —Shari Embler

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In that first moment of creation Did God close his eyes and shout to the sun for its spectrum to betray each man in its violent color. Such a choice to begin, to be born in agony and sorrow to live Each meets life on equal terms like one man made of millions. Because he is man, a man born Of choice, of life. Each man white walks darkly through life while the dark one Karen McConkey too seeks light. Share the darkness and light, Oh man, for thou hast been born to share in brothers’ sin alike and to reap the whiteness of pleasure, joy, and sorrow. ATE ANDREWS HIGH SCHOOL SECONG FLODR NEI B08.