PAGE &, THE TOWNSMAN, Friday, December 2, 1977

LOVERS ALONG THE SKEENA

O strangers, they come and go dear
Wait for me down by the river

Wait for me down by the river
Along the mighty Skeena

There we'll stand beside the Skeena
Holding hands in the rare contentment
Gating on God’s amazement

From the sky to river’s edge

To love her, the mighty Skeena

With her heart as bold as thunder
Majestic tide and aii that wonder
| love the Skeena as much as you

And though there are no words dear
To expose this happenstance ©

Or reveal this total splendor

Of us finites in her trance

All mercy and fair arrangemants
We can view in all her grandeur
We can feel her blood’s commotion
And realize what we are meant for

As the rocks I'm sure, don‘? know appeasement
Naor the trees nor sand below

it seams it’s just our exaltation

That makes us different than the snow

And the wind, it might caress us

Or throw us jimply aut to sea

Within her veins like logs and ice chunks
Orifting with eternity

Thovgh we are but [ust a pebble
Positioning closely to her side
Gaining strength to muster new day
From her glory, grace and pride

To oceans flow the mighty Skeena
Never staying but always there
Always going but never leaving
Cantinvovs presence in new dimension

As we ready our departure

And we end our rendezvous

With each other and this enigma
That's greater so than me and you.

O lovers, thay come and go dear
Some return-dawn by the river
Some return dawn by the river
Along the mighty Skeena

David R. Erickson
Terrace, 8.C,

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In brief:

SPENDING IN-
CREASED

LONDON (CP) — The
number of overseas
visitors to the United
Kingdom has continued
to increase, figures for

_ the second quarter of 1977

show. There were 2.9

million overseas visitors
in the second quarter, 21-
per-cent more than the
same quarter last year,
and they spent 4l-per-
cent more than last year.
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PAINTING

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causing damage that
may cost up to 700 to
restore. Ruth Olive Van
Herpen, 43, told the
court: “I only kissed it to
cheer it up. It looked so
cold.’’ The case was
adjourned for three
weeks for psychiatric and
social inquiry reports.

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