Vergennes Union High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Vergennes, VT)

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BLUE AXD WHITE 31 A SYMBOL As I see you, Oh majestic pine tree. Towering’ there, you seem to me so proud. Through passing years, you stand for all to see, So closely wrapped in your thick green shroud. Rays of sunshine turn your needles to jade. Tinkling raindrops to diamonds glistening bright. The snows of winter a blanket have made. Whose downy lightness we touch with delight. Such a lofty crest that freely in every wind, Gently nods as he watches all below. To me you’re a lord among all your kind. Yet neither conceit nor disdain you'll show. In age and wisdom; you’re more than a tree. You're a guiding symbol of Liberty. Janet Abare, '47. “THE SOUL” Down the road of life will trod the soul To be cherished by few and scorned by the rest Living in sincere peace or beyond control To hate with fury or love with unbound zest Entering into deep feeling or running over with emotion Strong and undying it seeks, until found the one Known only by the two that concede devotion. Long remembered, it is embedded in the heart to replace the sun On dark days when all but faith has seemed to vanish It may be seen as a mirror reflecting light into a shadow Nor yet cheated of the love but grown famished To then be with happiness and renewed hope endowed All through life it has sanctioned tears In the end to be lost with by-gone vears. Bill Taylor. '47. WHY I THINK RUDYARD KIPLING IS A GREAT WRITER Strangely enough. I dislike Kipling’s prose, but I thoroughly enjoy his poetry. This may be caused bv the fact that I read his Jungle Book at a very tender age. I distinctly remember attaching an odd dislike to its hero “Mawgli. I can not explain this except perhaps to say that it seemed exceedingly foolish to have a boy brought up by animals, and besides, it did not make sense. Neither did his story of “How the Camel Got His Hump” appeal to me. I think, perhaps, that I was more than a little fickle about my reading matter, but if any one would give me a book of fairy tales 1 would sit and read bv the hour. As I became older I was encouraged to read his poems. Perhaps, because 1 was older and could better understand them; I enjoyed them more. I have always especially liked his poem “If.” A saying, oft told would apply very well to it: “There’s more truth than poetry in it.” It is remarkable for a man to write timely poetry in his day and have it still modern twenty-years later. Yet that is exactly what Kipling did.. His poems “Recessional” and “Who Dies If England Live” are excellent examples of this. In fact 1 think the latter of these two sums up in three stanzas, what H. G. Wells tells us in several pages in his essay. “The End Of An Age.” But the poem I like best is his “L’Envoi.” This poem, for some reason. piques my imagination. Although his subject is death, he paints a bright picture of the “World Beyond” where “no man shall work for fame.” Teresa Bodette, '48. SAYINGS “Life is like a ladder, every step we take is either up or down.” “How you use today, determines how tomorrow will use you.” “You can serve God only by serving Man.”

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