Abbot Academy - Circle Yearbook (Andover, MA)

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©ur $tc ut6t to Qttnefeen §bi)c (And since we can ' t very well apologize to Mr. Kipling, we here- with tender our humblest pleas for pardon to Miss Converse.) Take up the Seniors ' burden — The toil ye dare not shirk — Fill all your hours with labor, Learn what it is to work ! Learn this as we have learned it, O check your longings wild ! O new-made, fluttered Seniors, Half woman ? No, all child ! Take up the Seniors ' burden — In patience to abide, To veil desires for power, And check the show of pride. Give to the College Seniors The honors ye prize most, Nor speak too much of Ethics, Lest people think ye boast ! Take up the Seniors ' burden — No tawdry life of ease, But toil of weary student, And dread of direful E ' s. Worse than the themes that try you, Worse than Church History, Before you stands the spectre Of James ' Psychology ! 28

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Chorus — So we love thee, dear old Abbot, So the Abbot blue we bless, In thy halls a band of school-girls Abbot ' s fellowship confess. Yet we know that when we leave thee, When we ' ve done with days of school, Still thine influence shall guide us, All our lives thy spirit rule. Vet, ' neath the fun and the rare good times, ' Neath all our girlish dreaming, Lies — and we think of it of t-times — A hint of a deeper meaning. Dimly a myst ' ry we understand, Half blindly drawing near it, That ' neath our love for it all must stand The worth of the Abbot spirit. Chorus — So we love thee, dear old Abbot, So the thought of thee we bless, All our lives shall we together Abbot ' s fellowship confess. When we ' ve said good-bye to Abbot, When we ' ve done with days of school, Still thine influence shall guide us, All our lives thy spirit rule. Mary Katherine Woods ' 05. 27

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Take up the Seniors ' burden — Ye may not stoop to less, Nor call too loud on Privilege To cloak your weariness. Still shall there be to guide you Those same rules ye have known, — Ye may not e ' en go driving Without a chaperon ! Take up the Seniors ' burden — Our senior days are o ' er, Because we must, we give you What we may keep no more. Yet come, to prove you Seniors, Strange things of dreadful sorts, From Faculty relentless, The marks on your reports ! M. K. W. 29