Trinity College - Ivy Yearbook (Hartford, CT)

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TO THE NEWLY VANQUISHED YVERE you for devastation proudly built? Condemned to shed your blood, defying death, VVhile armies move again with wanton guilt, And leave a shaken world to gasp for breath? Did you break soil that steel and men should pour Their heedless hell across your furrowed fields, And industry be silenced by the roar Of hate ignited by the brand it wields? No, not for this! but as burnt offerings laid 'Upon an altar raised to Future Years, This noble sacrifice by peoples paid Shall move both God and Man to shameless tears. If we who share your faith, have shared in vain- VVe shall be consecrated by your pain. RICHARD Kxowm-is Monms 'bl-0. OMBIHNCHMENT exercises 1939 .... Degrees and honors. Caps and gowns. The warm, the noon-day sung the scent of grassg the distant rumble of a trolleyg the falsctto cries of curious moppetsg the whisper of wind through the elmsg calm and peace. Visiting dignitaries: Doctor Benes-champions democracyg appeals for the release of the individual from oppression, from obseurityg receives the plaudits, the sympathy of the audience, the well wishes of his countrymen. But still, numerous forebodingg the tenor of his voice, suggesting, prophesying, all too accurately: mud, yellow-green, knee-deep, clinging, the slurp slurp of tanks, the stutter of machine gunsg wave upon wave of uni- formed men--uniform action, uniform expression, uniform thought. Implaeable. The dis- tant drone of planes, a glimpse, the silver glint, the destructive upheaval of bombs mush- roomingg the people Qthose who are ablej running, running! And the whine of shells. Summer . . . for us: Maine, VVatch Hill, Long Island, The W'hite Mountains, Gaspeg scenes on the water-clear-greeng the waves rippling, swelling, lap-lapping whitely at the shore, still, languorous nights-balmy, long, too soon endingg canoesg speedboats -with aquaplanes skidding dizzilyg moonlight bathing, beautiful girls-tan but blondg dancing till three at the club. Then at the all-night stand: a nickelodeon. Ma, HHS lllak- ing Eyes at file, Y0u'd be Surprised, Sunrixe Serenade, I'll Build a Stairway to the l9l

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