University of Victoria - Tower Yearbook (Victoria, British Columbia Canada)

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Poet- Tree by Dennis Brown ft. X . .N S how this tree, its spine alive with messages, always from the root to keep read petals CC if ' lf x, high in the striving air. lm, It blooms , ,Q i w , . . . . -.3 M1 I i ma,-gq5. f.y a mindful of visions, I A, A ll billowing seeds filly, 3 wb - f'ZGt?iF'ff ...J on unreflecting mold. . FT: , X, by . . . 7 ,I ff 1' It gives everything 'lf will X 1 f '1 - F W? , Copen y erti el , ,tty l - borrowing solely it from soaked, unconscious soil. 251 I' 1 ffl . . . . a ll . , J' The wind brings nothing to it - lgzll All ffl' ,ll ' . . . jj ' . . I whining with rumours wk: ,I :. . 5 ly ' of horrible frost. , pf. I The sapling lsprungj boughs to the breeze 457' 5' t., f.1,pf !,l,'3,, .Q . v and keeps its love alive. IM- ' :gg wg-Q ., . . . 1 , tb'-f If 11VffS to Yleld S .iff w rf:,-fi '..r - - - 3 Qsensmg what being isj : it N li-lu' 511' - - ggj, jf wg- free as the wind permits, 4 ,u l We X I A still, pledged to a fine consistence - Ag, -W V ' 1 SCC? 'I 5 You think that beard has made you wise, but Cut it offn is my advice, that goatish fly-swat is the cause, not of your learning, but your lice. Ammianus lxi. 156D 2 Girls are a tasty dish, agreed, but once they ask for money my taste-bud withers and they seem more vinegar than honey. Cillactor qv. 295 3 All that mortal man possesses has mortality and passes, everything goes hurrying past or is passed by us at last. Lucian fx. 3lj 4 As Adrian's naked bottom pressed that wooden bench, it pinched his cheeks, I tremble to love such a boy that even wood desires and tweaks. Strato Qxii. 15 j Give this right hand a foaming pot fired from the dark life-giving clay we come from, and, when we are not, lie under till the Judgment Day. Dioclorus Zonas lxxi. 6 I fell in love. I kissed. And she required no compelling. But who am I? And who is she? I tell you, Ilm not telling! Anonymous lv. 512 7 Whether I find you blonde or black, brunette or redhead, every day your young head troubles me with love, as it will still when you are grey. Anonymous Cv. 26D 8 A woman is a maddening creature and gives pleasure twice at most, once when she gives up her virtue, once when she gives up the ghost. Palladas Qxi. 381i Eight poems from the Greek Anthology translated by Robin Skelton 4

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