West Side High School - Lamp Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main, Â The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl; Wrecked is the ship of pearl! And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed, — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed! Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft steps its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more. Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap, forlorn! From thy dead lips a clearer note is born Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn! While on my ear it rings, Through the deep caves of thought | hear a voice that sings:— Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea! —OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

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Helen Adler 189 HUNTERDON STREET If Helen's plans to enter Rutgers School for Pharmacy are not fulfilled, she will en- roll at a business school Helen was a member of the Latin Club, Science Club, the Social Welfare C and the Girls Service Club. She ushered at the June 1941 graduation and participated in “Anchors Aweigh Margaret Apostolakos HOWARD STREET sted a tremendou the offer of an e Michael Alexander HUNTERDON STREET He was cho the esteem swimming 14 sen Lawrence Alpert 12th STREET ran ts usi- Bet he could s all set armacy in ook him Evelyn Wallise Baer 526 SOUTH 18th STREET and the become a