West Orange Mountain High School - Aries Yearbook (West Orange, NJ)

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“How shall I go in peace and without sorrow? Nay, not with- out a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city. “Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls, and long were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret? “Too may fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets, and too many are the children of my longing that walk among these hills, and I cannot withdraw from them without a burden and an ache. “The sea that calls all things unto her calls me and I must embark. “For to stay, though the hours burn in the night, is to freeze and crystallize and be bound in a mould. “Fain would I take with me all that is here. But how shall I?

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 A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the other. And alone and without his nest shall the eagle fly across the sun. It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands. Nor is it a thought I leave behind me, but a heart made sweet with hun- ger and with thirst. Yet I cannot tarry longer. —Kahil Gibran The Prophet All |Mt«s in booh arc frta The Prophet