Union College - Stespean Yearbook (Barbourville, KY)

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LIKE BLUE WATERS AND THE WHITE OF SAND The myth that we have shaped of ancient Greece Is good. Has grace. Is stronger than the history they made Which could not be restored Even if we chose. But instead we choose the symbol— the rose Among nations— symmetrical. Beautiful, simple, unforgettable. They say (the myth says) a people from the cold Hard north came to the Mediterranean, bold People, deep, life-loving Minds quick and roving. We admit glossing over much: hurt slaves And disease and blood. Terror graves. The bestial. The obscene. Men like gars. Women never clean. But we forgive because we understand That like blue waters and the white of sand These Grecian images in word and stone Can cut into the living flesh. Can atone. Can free. Can hang over the hot heart, on a fabulous tree, Pears of the proud torsos of pale Women strong to be loved, the purple trail Of the gleaming grapes of stark Tragedies, the crimson mark Of the apples of crisp ideas, plums Of strange music, blooms Of white columns, pods of sleek Javelins— all fixed, mysterious. All Greek. So in this college by this other river and other Hills around, we call them brother To our play, our thought, our pleasure and our pain. Our need for wholeness gives them life again.

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Freshman Class Officers WILLIAM TRENT President PHILLIP SHARP Vice-President JANE EMBREE Secretary JERRY RICHARDSON Treasurer