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The Soul of a Steeple

Night closes in as twilight fades,
While noises cease, and silence pervades
And in the distance, strong and still,
A steeple rises from a lonely hill.
It pierces the sky with a majestic light
As if to outshine the stars of night.
It stands as a symbol of human life,
Built up by years of toil and strife,
And bravely it rases and reaches high,
Searching eternally through the night sky.
A.nd when d avn doth break, only then will it cease
To wait again for night in calmness and peace.

Babs Meirose

Progress

Man saw a log and invented a wheel;
His chariot led to an automobile;
And vrhen the earth's surface was cr-owded with cazs ,
He stretched traffic problems on out to the stars.
You'd thiw{ he was brilliant to hear all the talk;
Maybe he's simply too lazy to walk.

Sherriel Mattingly

Honesty

IIAn honest Man's the noblest work of God. n This statement

by Alexander Pope is especially true today.

It is true because an honest man has the courage to stand

up in a world of llypocrisy. He does not hobble with the crutch

of flattery or slither behind the mask of dedeit. He is not a

glorified machine reciting expected responses while xt~ N±kk

kZx kRxOC EX marching tm its motorts regulated tune. Instead, this

man of truth walks steadily with his head erect. He is confident

that what he is doing or saying is right. He dares to tangent the

circle of conventionality. His vievlS don't evaporate in the

presence of opposition:' hi~ ideals don't dissolve in a solution of

conformity.
It is easy to lio. In i!The Art Eternal, n H. L. Hencken

criticizes the fact that it is not only easy, but it is to be

expected. Thus, is it not noble to remai~ homest in the company

of deceivers, to remain true in the midst of falsehood?

Liz McPherson