Townsend Harris High School - Crimson Gold Yearbook (Flushing, NY)

Page 56 text:

sometimes, It might do you some good. The Poet, bewildered, struggled with his trousers while the other angrily marched off For the ICSI of the morning neither the Poet nor the Peasant sought to engage each other in conversation The Peasant silently busied himself chopping wood milking his cows and watering his plants All the while the Poet sat moodily watchin his neighbor at work wishing for an opportunity to resume their friend ship but unwilling to make the first advance And so he remained seated on his own doorstep silent medita tive and almost tearful Suddenly the Poet leaped up his arms outstretched The Peasant was approaching Now said the Peasant w know each other too well to squabble over these matters Of course the Poet assented eagerly Well the Peasant continued Im ready to take my annual pil grimage and for the six hundred and sixty fifth time Do you want to go? Oh exclaimed the other I I really couldn t do that All right replied the Peasant Then to the air as he walked away It is so foolish Why he might be as well off as any of us Walking and meditating so on his friends folly he arrived at length at a large hut where meeting a party of friends he set off on his Journey to consult the Oracle of Results an act strongly followed by the true be lievers The Poet however was one of the very few who refused to make the traditional pilgrimage He was a scoffer, a heretic-a harmless one, to be sure, but, nevertheless, a heretic. The orthodox were however tol erant not at all given to needless persecution So while the others trooped to the Holy City the Poet was left at home unmolested and free to do what he chose Why rbozzlal the orthodox care? Were not their larders filled with the bounty of Results while those of the Poet were empty? Let him eat the food of his folly' When the good citizens mentally compared their own tables groaning with fruit and fowl to the poor and barren tables of the Poet they inwardly praised the fate that had made them sane and prosperous The Holy City loomed high above the surrounding towns and villages No pilgrim however insensible to the appeal of art could help being impressed by the power and beauty of its structures The city indeed represented the perfected product of all that had been contributed by art and science a product which in short represented the harmonious 9 9 a ' ' 7 ' 7 7 ' 7 . 7 7 f ' ' tr 1 0 Q , . 7 a a ' , . 7 Cl 7? ' il 7 7 e Y? 7 7 7 7 7 ' . . ....the poet sat moodily .... Y! QR 73 ' I! I , . - 3 YP , 7 K! ' 7! ' 7 ' , 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 ' 7 7 ' 7 7 7 7 ' 7 Page Fzfzy-two

Page 55 text:

The Elephant By HAROLD PRINCE And the blrnd men placed therr hands upon the elephant and each descr1bed the ammal accordlng to h1s own lmpressrons An old story NCE upon a trme 1n the State of Berng there lrved a young Poet and a sturdy Peasant They were fr1ends and nerghbors Therr humble huts bordered upon the Rrver of Lrfe whrch ran through the country and ended somewhere-one knew not exactly rn a dark and thrckly wooded forest At the trme our story commences Wrnter was fast retreatrng before the steady advance of Sprrng Along the face of the earth green shoots of grass rntruded themselves above the ground Feathered creatures wrng mg therr way back from the south land began to appear upon the branches of the awakenrng trees twrtterrng songs of gladness Even approprrately enough domrnance to the note of joy And above all earthly thrngs a br1ll1ant sun shed 1ts rays of warmth It was durrng thrs season that the Poet awoke one mornrng to wrtness the glorrous spectacle of the r1s1ng sun as lf topped the purple mountarn a drstance from hrs hut Ah he recrted even as he was lyrng 1n bed Sprrng the sweet Sprrng IS the year s pleasant krng Then blooms each thrng then rnards dance rn a rmg Cold doth not strng the pretty brrds do srng Cuckee jug Jug pu we to wrtte wee The Peasant chanced to pass by the hut just then and knowrng the Poet for a man of foolrsh actrons he thought that the poor Poet had at last taken leave of h1s senses Open 1n0 the door cautrously for he feared violence the Peasant saw h1s nergh bor srttrng naked on the bed gazrng rapturously out of the wrndow Why man he crred you can t do that People pass by here B srdes youll get pneumonra These words of wrsdom had no effect upon the Poet s behavror Now be sensrble pleaded the Peasant drsturbed by hrs nerghbor s srlence You really mutt put some The Poet slowly turned h1s head toward the Peasant Are you the harbrnger of Sprrng brrngrng wrth you the sweet song of brrds and the pleasant scent of flowers? he asked 1n a low pleasant vorce The devrl Im not the Peasant exclarmed vrolently Now lrsten here Lollrng 1n bed t1ll mrd day and srngmg srlly songs about flowers arent gorng to mend the holes 1n your trousers I hke songs myself at trmes but you Evrdently he was drsgusted Look at your house he contrn ued Its filthy Try cleanmg rt 7 tl l . 7 I 7 I 7 7 ' ' 7 7 7 QT sb , u u , - . 7 , . u ,U ' 7 tt 1 . . e- ' - 1 - ar , . f , I - QQ 0 73 1 7 . , . . , , 9 the frogs, discordant symphony gave, thing OH-H 7 . , . , U - - 7 , . , 7 Q1 ' 7 777 ll 7, ' . q n . 1 1 7 7 . ' , . . . 7 7 . , , l .,-u..-n-4ava ' ll I, ' 1 a ' 1 o ll 7 ' ' ., I , Page Fifty-one

Page 57 text:

fusron of the technrcal and artrstrc Entermv the mam thoroughfare the prlgrtm came to a long road flanked on etther srde by tall slend er steel structures whose pomted peaks seemed to prerce the very clouds themselves In sharp contrast to therr taller brothers low squat wwf '10 W W WWWWQA WWMII1 Uwlqa Z W2 42 ? f llllllllllllll The Holy Clty loomed high above the surroundmg towns and vrllages burldmgs occupred the lesser thoroughfares Everywhere fantast1c lrghts lent therr effect to the strange appearance of the crty and almost always one could hear above the clamor of the crowd the steady per srstent and rythmrcal murmur of machmery Srtuated rn the center of the ctty was a tall broad burldmg that ar rested the attentron of all Well mrght rt for rn th1s crty of wonders thrs was the greatest of all Flymg buttresses rounded domes Dorrc columns Greek Gothrc and Ara besque archrtectures all harmonr ously synthesrzed mto a most pleas mg and practrcal structure the second feature of which was most carefully pomted out rn all of the gurde books Thrs was the Temple of the Oracle It was here that the Peasant and h1s frrends came The Attendant of the Order of Stocks and Bonds greeted them ceremonrously and then ushered them mto a hrgh roofed room pleasmgly decorated w1th red damask curtams that served to ex clude even the least ray of sunlrght The Hrgh Oracle was not v1s1ble rn the deep gloom of the room but h1s vorce could be heard boommg Indrcatrons are that Water Steel wrll reach a new level corn appears steady potatoes up one gulden wheat declmmg The devrll exclalmed one Ill be turned Merely a temporary depresston whrspered the Attendant Condt stable 6 A C S 31A U P O The VOICC soon dred away The prlgrrms closed therr notebooks mut tered a few tradrtronal sentences placed a few guldens m the proper receptacles and then left the room Above the street strmgs of eatmg places recerved darly the prlgrrms from the outlymg drstrrcts The Peasant and hrs frrends entered one of these ordered a substantral meal and drverted themselves for a whrle watchmg the dancrng grrls Therr conversatron however soon shtfted to toprcs of mutual mterest Last year mumbled one as he extracted the meat from a chrcken bone three of my chrckens won first prrze Thats the kmda meat I l1ke to eat not thrs stuff Tbfeef exclarmed another d1s an f ' 7 . 7 1 V 1 7 7 . 7 7 7 ' 7? I . A 1 E . 4 1 Q 7 9 f 3 in 7 9 5 4l f - . ,, V 2 .......,. . an Z V Q. . , ., , A f . ,, faag Q. 7 A ' 7 'I HH IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII' H ' H 7 tions everywhere are firm and ' ' . U ......... 2. ......... . . . f ......... . . . 18 ......... . ' 7 ' . . , . 7 7 7 7 l 7 ' 9 7 , ' I - . , a : . ., . . , ' b ' . v . , y 7 7 I 0 Q a a ' 1 1 ' 7 , . , . ' ' ff . H , ' , ' , Page Fifty-three