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    Twilight and Dawn
    Twilight and Dawn
    Twilight and Dawn
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    Twilight and Dawn

    By Alfred Gustave

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    An exciting work in prose that takes the reader trough events in history too now with blunt insight. Given to this writer 50 years ago by a mysterious author, Walden Browning. He appeared on day and gave me this manuscript and said publish it. Then left to never hear from him again. Now discovered, I will share this poignant work for you to enjoy and be inspired. Truly a work of inspired literary art. You wont put it down.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlfred Gustave
    Release dateAug 13, 2014
    ISBN9781310022968
    Twilight and Dawn
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    Alfred Gustave

    Born with an inquisitive mind always looking for the truth, I am now sharing some of what I found. Al Gustave has been designing and creating beautiful works of art for a lifetime. It’s his passion, and you can tell. His dedicated carving studio and office in Vero Beach are filled with everything from chairs, shelving, lamps, exquisite bowls, boxes, jewelry and sculpted vases to any kind of woodworking tool an aspiring craftsman might dream of owning or using. Sixty eight years of training, experience and skill visibly honed into a man’s passion for creating art from often exotic wood foraged, turned and traded with his fellow craftsmen. Creating with his hands and thinking in three dimensions has been the cornerstone of Al’s passionate career. Growing up in Long Beach, California in the 1940’s and 50s, Al has spent a lifetime becoming a ‘Master’ of his craft. “Over the years, through experience, you learn you can make anything with wood as your medium. You know how to use all the tools and you learn all the disciplines of all the various parts of woodworking,” shares Al.

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      Book preview

      Twilight and Dawn - Alfred Gustave

      Twilight and Dawn

      By

      Alfred Gustave

      Dedicated to Father, whose

      Guidance and friendship made

      This book possible.

      Published by AYG Publishing at Smashwords

      Copyright 2014 AYG Publishing

      Alfred Y. Gustave, Vero Beach, Florida

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      PREFACE…

      I don’t condemn man’s many creeds

      Or blame him for his many deeds,

      It’s only that I take this route

      Of digging out the hidden truths.

      Appreciating as I write

      Of mankind’s struggle toward the light,

      That he’ll progress eventually

      To heavens without misery!

      Perhaps the many things I’ll say

      Will speak too much of bloody frays,

      But all my words can’t half describe

      The horror felt by those who’ve died.

      Realizing as they did –

      They were the victims of their ID.

      Plain words can never fully tell

      How horrible the pits of hell,

      Or even start to half-explain

      How miserable a useless pain.

      All words can do is set a scene

      As background for what terror means.

      I’ll only touch upon a few

      Of mankind’s many fickle views,

      And try at least to dramatize

      Poetically the ancient lies.

      To give some hint of why man’s wars

      Really are not worth dying for.

      I wouldn’t care to try and change

      The little song that he’s arranged,

      For I am thoroughly convinced

      Each note will find it’s recompense.

      And though I wouldn’t care to sing

      I don’t begrudge them anything!

      As such, I offer no advice

      The truth is all that can suffice,

      And I believe that every man

      Must, in the end, design HIS plan.

      And I have faith he will produce

      Eventually, a way of truth.

      God chose the twilight to make mankind

      He chose the midnight for Jesus’ time,

      He’s now composing a nocturne song …

      Walden Browning

      Table of Contents

      Preface

      The Blast

      The Ships of State

      Man, Maker of Mayhem

      The Pledge a Trillion Men Have Made

      An Ancient Cry

      Just Sign Your Name

      The Raw Recruits

      Brainwashing

      Just Kids

      We Hit the Beach Tonight

      The Eyeball in the Sand

      The Trip

      The Beach

      The Spell

      A Man Speaks Out

      An Ancient Cycle

      Sadism in Action

      The Steeples

      Scanning the Span

      From Ten Percent

      Through His Eyes

      When

      How much I Love

      A Question

      Of Thought

      Of Truth

      Between the Second and Third Acts

      Summing Up Today

      You

      The Approach of Dawn

      The Golden Dawn

      On Faith

      On Hope

      On Charity

      The Kinder Thoughts

      The Guide

      Man

      Beyond the Dawn

      Publishers Notes on Walden Browning

      THE BLAST…

      What is the stirring I hear in the night?

      That ominous whirl in the sky

      Is it some nation proclaiming its right?

      To blow the population sky high?

      I listen and hark to the humming,

      That shatters the stillness of dawn

      And wonder, if after its coming,

      Who’ll live to consider it wrong!

      I remember the cheers of the nations

      Parading their soldiers in line,

      And planning their own exaltation,

      Condoned this expression of crime!

      Who, writing such virtuous statements

      As Solomon never could write,

      Disguised all their motives of hate men

      To something like virtue and light.

      Who, parroting words at a table,

      Where statesmen divided the world,

      Abandoned all things good and stable

      And discarded the rarest of pearls.

      They, having divided,

      And purred to their citizens, War!

      Then, claiming the people decided,

      Pursued their mad schemes all the more!

      And the people. The poor little people,

      Trading sight for the late T.V. show,

      And their sense of direction to steeples

      Mere puppets who dangle in tow.

      Who pray, "help the leaders who lead us

      And give them the wisdom to see,

      That we will be there when they need us

      To do anything they decree"

      .

      That blast! It’s too late to consider

      Some other path open to trod,

      For the vengeance of warfare is bitter

      In direct opposition to God!

      Prayers said in tongues will not matter

      Or cause any change or retreat,

      For complacency chooses to splatter

      It’s users abroad in white heat!

      THE SHIPS OF STATE...

      The ships of state have always sailed

      Upon the blood of man,

      With cargos manifested HELL,

      And every trip well planned.

      The common men who filled the holes

      Could not escape their chains,

      For crews were taught to whip their souls

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