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We sought such purity and chastity As cannot be found in usual places Except where the fingers of God Have pushed aside blind and
blundering man,
And clothed the earth in such
beauty that
Man dares not to disrobe.
The snow was the gift of beauty. And yet the earthly body it covered
was scarred
By man who keeps plunging blindly
on his way.
But we knew the beauty was there If we could but find it.
The road did not give us that beauty; For 'tho it was straight and wide,
It was muddy with deep ditches
'rollnd
And drifts that clutched and trapped
us.
The woods did not give us that beauty;
For the black earth had thrust through its white cloak.
And the branches and bushes slapped at us
And welcomed us with harshness. We did find that beauty.
Though the road had tried to trip us,
And the woods had wanted to smother us,
We pursued.
And the gift was ours.
The field gave us the beauty.
A great expanse of whiteness Through which man had never
blundered
Lay before us,
Under the sky's vastness.
We did not want to touch this beauty,
And stain and sear it with our own sin.
But of course we did.
For we are but blind and careless
humanity Stumbling through God's world.
We recognized our sin
When we saw it mirrored before
us,
In the form of a man who claimed We trespassed on
His property.
He told us never to return to his
land again.
We knew.
It was his scarred and wretched
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THE METEOR
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THE QUEST
THE FISHERMAN AND THE FORT
The seeping rays of dawn shine down on an early and poor fisher- man as his small boat plows its way out to sea over the gentle morning waves. He sees a sailor dressed in white blending in with the white build- ing of the Coast Guard. A huge white bird circles lazily overhead looking for his morning diet which consists of small fish.
The rays finally break through the early mist of morning and turn the beautiful tropical sky into a light blue color. The boat chugs its way past the great white building of La Fortaleze, the governor's hom e, perched on top of the cliff-like penin- sula. Into view now comes the still, slumbering fort with its massive walls sloping down to the small, caressing waves of the harbor.
The sun begins its slow diurnal climb and directs its light upon the wet, mossy walls. The fort seems to
come alive while the fisherman is go- ing by. Its walls now shine and emit a clean fragrance. From the top of its tall mast the flag of the United States is now clearly seen against the light blue sky as it gently waves in the mornin g's breeze, and the old rusty cannons with their imperial look now are seen as they were once seen, with their mouths looking out to sea, scan- ning the horizon for the presence of enemy ships, but who now just look out to sea meditating over their hidden secrets of the age in which they had been young and had roared with defiance.
The fisherman sees and feels all of this, and inside him his blood tingles with pride as he recollects that that old but proud-looking fort was once the salvation of his native land when it fought gallantly for so many days against an enemy who could not destroy its young and thick walls.
land. God's snow.
-Bill Smyth.
-Frank Mora.