The Magpie Sings the Great Depression:
Selections from DeWitt Clinton High School's Literary Magazine, 1929-1942
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Lament
By Randolph G. Goodman
The Magpie, December 1929 v. 31, p. 37.
Sweet the water—
Bitter to taste
In a world submerged
In a maelstrom of haste . . .
Fair the sun-rays—
Dark to see
From workaday deeps,
Depths unhappy, unfree . . .
Sweet the blossom—
Acrid to smell
From an earth encrusted
With the Patines of Hell . . .
Fair the breezes—
Harsh to hear;
Discordantly blowing,
With the discord of Fear . . .
Sweet this Life—
God! to feel
Held tight to a Rack,
Fettered fast to a Wheel . . .
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