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CY IC'S PHILO OPHY
You can speak in words so wi e
When no trouble clouds your
e~es,
But just try it when ill-fate has gol you down;
For when a man is lucky,
You'll find him twic as plucky,
And he's et to fight the wodd without a frowr..
You can , it and give ad,·ice
In a manner cold as ice,
But there's no advice can pull you from despair;
Life'll kick you all around
'Til you grovel in the ground
Then leave you, licked and helpless, lying there
When you think you'r down and out,
Then ju t take a look about
And you'll c;ee you'r not alon in woe and car
For no matter what your trouble,
There'~
,ome one who has double
And with hi , your plight ha nothing tu
compare.
- H<trry Love
FRIENDSHIPS
I want to laugh when I know you're gay
And smile at the
funn~
things you ·ay;
I want to rejoice at your victory
As though you did it all for me.
Thal' the kind of friend I would be to you.
I want you to know when I take your hand
That here's a friend who
wm
undet tand,
Who will ,feel the throb of your heart in pain
And long for
t.hetime when it's healed again,
Who will know when shadows come your way
And watch with you till the dawn of day.
If others scoff as they sometimes do,
Remember a friend who will pull you through;
If
you travel the \'Orld over, no matter where
Th re is one who wili follow ) ou in pray r.
\\'h), ther 's hardly a thing I wouldn't do
Because, my fri nd, l i>elieve in you.
- !arion Sickler
IGHTMARES
All those young souls who
1
ive on schemes,
Who. e days are spent in trances,
Who~e
ni !!:htc; are filled with hopeful dreams
Of beautiful romances
Can tell the yet unstricken one,
" o use to run away,
For
upid'~
dart will find your heart
Though 'gainst your will, some day.
And then you, too, will live in tranc s,
Build up ,chemes, and hope for chances;
And if your dreams to nightmares turn,
Well-that's the way it goes, you'll learn."
- Be lle l\lcCQy
DIC O TT TIGER
TWO
BEGGER~
A begger lay beside the gate,
thing in rags, a pawn of fate,
And no man there who passed him by
Vould drop a coin in warm reply
To hi pl a-"Give alms for Allah's sake."
Another
~at
within the town;
nlike the fir t, he wore no frO\\ n;
Loud was th ring of coin in cup
And with each co;n his face lit up
As men gave "alms fo1· Allah's sake."
o sat the two, one sad, one glad:
No stronger proof could there be had
That when no one will gi\·c or lend,
A cheerful , mile will win a friend,
And men g iv "alms for Allah's ,ak ."
Little drops of omething,
Litlle grains of stuff,
~Jake
a
mighty bottleful-
For me, that's quite enough.
THE MOO
The moon
1::;
one lone gold , equin
- Ha rry Love
- BeUe
l\lc oy
Hung with bits of
froth~
lace
Upon th • dark blue velvet skirt
Of night..
- Rt•lte t cCoy
ETERNITY
The question which has always puzzled m
Is ·,he subj
·t
of eternity,
'Ti. said that , om day, non<' knows wh n,
'fhis world will come lo an end, and th n
'fhere will be a reckoning.
Th good aboYe, the bad b low,
Each their separate ways will
go;
There forever and ever to stay,
;o.;ot, for just a year and a day,
After the day of reckoning.
It
se ms impossible that time will wend
On foreYer without end,
The good to be glad; the bad to be sad
After the day of reckoning.
I just can't eem to realize,
There'll be
~unri
e after sunr'se,
With neYer, never any end
To this eternal path we wend,
After the day of reckoning.
- l\ta rjori l cWilliam ·