The Pickwicker, Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 1939 Page: 17
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As a grown woman I know that I shall have my share of
responsibilities, problems, and even tragedies, but they can not be
more real more terrifying than those of childhood and of youth.
When I am thirty the anticipation of a trip to the candy shop
may be even less thrilling than it is today, a worldly honor may
be even more empty, yet I shall have found truer, more heart-
thrilling joys.
No, I have not lived the happiest days of my life, neither has
the bride, the young mother or the aged grandmother. As long as
I have another day to live I believe that if I have grown, if I
have loved, shared, and served the next day may be my happiest.
That is the hope of my youth; may it be the fulfillment of my
young life.
Olive Jane Wilson
Life
A squalling (and bewildered) baby boy;
An ambitious (though bewildered) young man;
A disillusioned (and bewildered) centenarian.
Then- a bit of rotting flesh;
a bit of bleaching bone;
Then- a pinch of dry earth
All this in the space of a fleeting moment;
All this on an infinitesimal grain of dust
Plummeting through the incomprehensible vastness of an
unbounded em-tiness.
- Gaston Cogdell-17-
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