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For My Quieter Classmates... Author(s): Scott Heumann Source: AAUP Bulletin, Vol. 58, No. 3 (Sep., 1972), p. 321 Published by: American Association of University Professors Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40224605 . Accessed: 15/06/2014 03:04 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . American Association of University Professors is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to AAUP Bulletin. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 62.122.79.78 on Sun, 15 Jun 2014 03:04:39 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions

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For My Quieter Classmates...Author(s): Scott HeumannSource: AAUP Bulletin, Vol. 58, No. 3 (Sep., 1972), p. 321Published by: American Association of University ProfessorsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40224605 .

Accessed: 15/06/2014 03:04

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versity; Ralph S. Brown, Jr. (Law), Yale University; Clark Byse (Law), Harvard University; Bertram H. Davis (English), Washington Office, ex officio; David Fellman (Political Science), University of Wisconsin; C. William

Heywood (History), Cornell College; William J. Kilgore

(Philosophy), Baylor University; Walter P. Metzger (His- tory), Columbia University; John R. Phillips (English), Western Michigan University; C. Dallas Sands (Law), University of Alabama; Winton U. Solberg (History), University of Illinois.

For My Quieter Classmates . . . Say nothing

You may be a masterpiece closed in a cupboard

We'll never know

And what we interpret Are the obscure metaphors of your Song of Myself:

searchlight eyes drumming fingers with their

hieroglyphic ring seldom-smile and scissorsharp brow

Say nothing

You may be less interesting than you look

After all, through twenty silent centuries

Stonehenge was only a calendar -

the most mystic poet of stone was only counting days on her indestructible digits, passing time while being passed by

Say nothing

But somewhere in your private mind I'll plant this litany:

Obscurity is the false refuge of poets; and silence,

of students.

Scott Heumann Trinity University (73)

AUTUMN 1972 321

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