Boy With Sailboat, Lovers Point Park, Pacific Grove, CA 2005

"Yesterday's Dream -- Tomorrow's Memory" is a bronze sculpture by Dorothy Fowler (1990). It was commissioned by the Pacific Grove High School Class of 1944 as a memorial to Lover’s Point and to the individuals who left home to fight in the war. "Yesterday's Dream -- Tomorrow's Memory," a poem by Lorraine Duncan, accompanies the sculpture.

 

YESTERDAY’S DREAM – TOMORROW’S MEMORY

 

INNOCENT ONCE, YOU AND I

SCALED HUGE SEA ROCKS, CLIMBING HIGH

TO POINT AND DREAM, STARRY - EYED

AS SAILBOATS SKIMMED BY.

 

THEN OUR SEA TURNED DARK WITH WAR

AND TOUCHED EACH ONE WITH SORROW

CHILD - LIKE FAITH BEAMED OUT FRESH HOPE

FOR A SAFE TOMORROW

 

STAND WITH ME, LOOK OUT TO SEA

MEMORIES, YESTERDAY’S SCENES,

COME ALIVE. WE’LL DARE NEW DREAMS

LOOK WITH A CHILD’S EYE

 

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