Around the College - Administration, Monash University

Warren Sf. C'air
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LIFE - FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH
Oh, the ioy of life;
This corrupted and boring life.
What to do,
Oh, what to do
When you're tired and blue and don't know what to do,
When you have been driven up the pole,
Oh, what to do.
Just find yourself a hole,
Crawl inside and lie down and bid the world a sad goodbye.
Cause when you feel the way you do
Oh what can you do.
I'll tell you my friends
Precisely nothing.
You are just like a used plaything,
So my friends when you are inside your hole,
Say your prayers and prepare to climb
Those white, white stairs up to the pearly gates
For the judgment time comes to all us liars,
Who spend all their time on earth caught between a huge pair of pliers
On one side the choking grasp of your own misdoings,
On the other the chill, tight grip of the darkness of your life,;
And when your life is dark
Don't try and solve it by a walk in the park.
When your friends avoid you,
When the justice and purpose of life avoids you,
Then my friends-even those who despise me­
Please take my advice and don't flee
Don't take your life with that knife you haven't got the nerve to use,
Lift your heart and eyes to heaven my friends,
And turn to your only friend, the one who
Hasn't been avoiding you, you have been avoiding him,
And so with a final line I'll leave this earth.
For those who read this work please don't regard it with mirth,
But be sympathetic to a someone as pathetic as me.
T. W. Lee
REBIRTH
Each morning, with the rising sun, brings life and hope anew.
Though dark despair, the day before, within your heart wild
grew.
And fearful were your prophecies and thoughts of times to be ;
And more than once you gave up hope----no goodness could you see.
But then at last relief would come, and sleep would close your
mind,
And send you to a tranquil world, with no regard for time
Until, at last, refreshed and strong, you met the newborn day
With eagerness to conquer all the trials to come your way.