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

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Oh pray that down at Commerce They ll keep therr sprrrt lrve That Harrrs personahty Its glow to keep they ll strrve Therr exrle some day shall be o er And Harrrs shall revrve Then let us cer look forward And plan for future days When on the towr of Harrrs Our standard we shall rarse When Vrct ry on our cause w1ll shrne Wrth brrght resplendent rays When that day comes may we br1ng back Tradrtrons whrch have not slept Tradrtrons whrch l1ke the 1vy And may they be l1ke the 1vy Green and freshly kept I saw the tow r of Harr1s As I was pass1ng by The gray tow r of Harrrs Agarnst the pearl gray sky My heart was wrth the Harrrs boys Who leave wrthout a srgh But exrle some day shall be o er And Harrrs shall revrve And Harrrs personalrty Shall be agam ahve And Harrrsrtes shall sport agarn And youthful joys shall thrrve TRISTAN C DURWARD 7 7 7 7 . 7 . , V . . , . . . . , 7 7 About these walls have creptg 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 Page Sixty-three

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Babyloman Capttvn 'y I saw the tow r of Harrrs As I was passrng by The gray tow r of Harrrs Agalnst the pearl gray sky My heart was wrth the Harrrs boys Who leave wrthout a srgh The years Oo fast rn Harrrs The golden years and gay The hoary gothrc tow rs look down On careless boys at play But now the pow rs above decree They leave the green banked Rrver The Oval and the Drrve The Campus and the Terra e To seek out busrness hrve They g1ve therr merry youth away That College growth may thrrve Atop a prle of steel and brrck They ll take up therr abode And rn envrronment mature Thelr youth w1ll find a good The Founder now must srgh to see Them stunt the seed he sowed 99 66 O 0 Ot 7 D . 3 9 S 7 , 7 They put their games away. 7 . 7 7 C 9 S I I ' g S4 rytw

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Om Leavnng By MURRAY KALISCHER Farewell to Townsend Harr1s that we knew To wrlderness of mason ry we go And though our ex1le unw1ll1ng IS too true Yet memorres forb1d 1ts bemg so What matter rf our future dom1c1le Has advantageous that and useful th1s Are blank stone walls fore er to fill The place of Gothic dl nrty and hl1ss9 Thlnk you the clamor of enclosed court From fertlle mem ry w1ll erase The roammg carefree hours of a sort That never knew the check of bounded space? Is Harr1s s sole pnde thus to he shattered Its own secluded grandeur to he shorn Submerged as though If never matte1ed Beneath the blare of trafnc s honkrng horn? The Harr1s that IS present rs soon past The older order yreldeth to the new And leaveth us but mem nes at the last As all that doth begm and end must do O 1 ' 7 1 1 1 7 1 O . D 1 . , . 1 1 1 ., . 1 - 1 1 - 1 , . 1 1 ,. Page Sixty-four