Chicago Christian High School - Violet and Maize Yearbook (Palos Heights, IL)

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Q-7-we Q E:-c +-- --4 ,J- To THE CLASS or '24: Perhaps it was its very simplicity, perhaps it was the few letters printed in bright red, which here and there had found a place among its letters of sabre hue, perhaps it was the fact that my mother was wont to gaze at and meditate upon it as it hung on the wall in a frame that was already crumbling,-perhaps it was the pleading of the poem itself that first impressed me. Whatever its first charm may have been, the little poem has now completely captivated me, and often I have been able to forget that I bore the burden in accordance with its prescription. Thus I would like to pass it on. The path of you graduates will not always be rosy. You will meet with little trials and vexations as you go along. And yet you need not despair for you can leave your load of care right at the feet of OUR BURDEN BEARER The little sharp vexations And the briars that catch and fret, Why not take all to the Helper Who has never failed us yet? Tell Him about the heartache, And tell him the longings, too, Tell Him the baffled purpose VVhen we scarce know what to do. Then leaving all our weakness VVith the one divinely strong, Forget that we bore the burden, And carry away the song. -PHILLIPS BROOKS. HENRY A. SWETS. EPILOGUE TO ASOLANDO One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake. No, at noonday in the bustle of man's worktime Greet the unseen with a cheer! Bid him forward, breast and back as either should be, Strive and thrive! cry Speed! Fight on, fare ever There as here! As you go forth from the halls of this institution, may you return often to the great field of literature not only for a respite from the struggles of life, but also for the purpose of unshackling yourselves from the bonds of prejudice and tradition and keeping your minds unclouded and free from the repressive forces that bind the powers of inner compulsion. JOHN DE BOER. 16

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