Walton High School - Periwinkle Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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429 S. -I 9'! , 9 I .1 5 I 1 2994 Love ol EGG Ulluj l don't think vve're as Comrnercialized As poets sayg We still love beauty and tine things Todayg We vvould not sell our souls For dollar bills. And when they say Getting and spending, Spending and getting My heart tills With sorrovv. Perhaps there are a tevv ot The grasping type, but vvhy eondernn the crop For one coins blight? We love our Cod, and all ot l-lurnanlqind Which day to day ls living, and sighing, And laughing, then dying So l find We still love beauty CERTRUDE DQUNN

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CZOlTlI'l'lQl'lCQI'l'lQI1l SPQQCLI WOPIJ DQGC9 Gnd H19 DOQTI And they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not litt up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. Thus did Micah, the sage and prophet, toretell the spirit ot the operation ot peace-world peacel And long after Micah had become a part of the dust from which he had sprung, many poets took up the thread where he had lett ott spinning, and continued to weave the tapestry of world friendship. Our best beloved of all, the wisest and pithiest ot all humans, wove not a little ot the cloth ot peace. William Shakespeares loom produced a cloth of excellent quality, The silken strands ot the warp were bound around a base of brotherly love. The iron- like threads ot the woot were twisted around a base ot national unity. The senseless horrors ot war tar outweighed the glorious honors of battle, the tield ot the slain conquered was more vital than the rejoicing ot the living victorious. l-low vigorously did Shakespeare war upon war in the words: Now doth dogged war bristle his angry crest and snarleth in the gentle eyes ot peace. The good Queen Elizabeth doubtless had her ettect on the Bards work tor, excellent monarch that she was, she kept peace in England tor thirty years, What is more conducive to thoughts ot peace than peace? We know that Shakespeare is not a preacher. Never does he say, Peacel Accept itl But his poetry, philosophy and ethics are indisputably emphatic torces towards world friendship, The pure futility of war is expressed in these lines ot lulius Caeser: Hlmperious Caeser, dead and turnld to clay, lvlight stop a hole, to keep the wind awayfl Not very reverential, not very worshipping, but how very aptl Thus we might cite lines in every play that deal with the use- lessness and the brutality ot war, But all Shakespeares revulsion from cruelty and horror are summed up in the words: O I 0 .I l'Q l N