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Man's Grandeur

Booral
A rising cloud
Flares in the noiseless night, looming
ForlornlY over the darlcened city, "lith the loud
Blaring of the sirens rising and falling in u crescendo
And decrescendo of cacophonous sound; lights flashing,
People running, bu~ldings falling, an endless flow
Of ra~pant destruction; a mashing
Of human bones;

Deadly gamma
Rays halting

The heart-
Beat of the
Nation; the
Result of man's

harvelous ingenu':t~:".

RobJrt J. Dinger

h~1flection
I watch my dreams like gold gazelles
Bounding across the sun-streaked plain;
Light and s"lift and proud they are,
~ch sharp against the morning sky.
Behind the boulder the lions wait
Arld yavm "lith blood-stained mouth s of fate.

Jan Lhell

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