Decatur High School - Azure and Maize Yearbook (Decatur, MI)

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.-Xfar in the distance. It is Success. But the swimmers soon crook their trail, And do no less than wrongly guess That their's is an easy sail. A And so it seems for a little while, But their strength soon fades away. .-Xfter circling about for many a mile, XYhat's the use? at last they say, XYe must go some time, and why not here? So quickly down they sink, XYithout a fear, in that lake so clear. To oblivion's brink. l-lut wait! the swimmers, out of breath. Realize their awful lot. And lest they die a dreadful death, Resolve to follow not The worthless path. So up they swim, Almost exhausted. Yet. rlilllblloill life seems dim. they are filled 5 And safe to the top they get. w i There, suddenly each one finds release After his hard and faithful fight, th i .Xml pulls with strokes that will never cease Till he has reached Success's light. lf we must fight. Success to win, l..et us like these swimmers be. .-Xnd start again. for the task of men ls to overcome difficulty. L'nfolding the leaves of that precious book Recalling' bygone days of grace. XYe look to the past when we undertook To run a four year's race. There were many persons we hrd never n To them we soon were known As Freshies. Yet. lest we forget XYith slams they had it shown. At first, in l'liQ'h. quite big' we felt. Oh, we say those times were great. Though we were wronged. now feelings n And each is a dear schoolmate. At the parties, each we found to be liashful and dry or not. Or smart was he, or cute was she, But the difference was what. 1011 TC