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

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5 gXs underclassnien, each had a craving 'f To sit in a large hack seatz 'ien sometimes we weren't quite hehaving, .- eacher's glance we'd meet, XX'e'd try to pass a note perhaps, 'H Other niischiefs too were clone lake stealing' naps, or fixing' traps: k Mr XX e hold these things as fnn. 5 1, 5 hl v iiiifilii Though things may have heen ont of place. T Q, - XX'e haven't one regret. - ' ii lifxcept il' the saine line we could trace. . ?'. lletter marks we would try to get. j-'Z The greatest test we have had to stand 34 1 XX'as one to keep from play, l-lutvnow its grand to leave the hand XX ith not a tault to say. . IA. D rlnr hall teani was one great hig' -iest. -fl' lt was the hravest ever was. 2- For it could stand defeat the hest T Of all of them. hecauseh. ' .Xs we recall inanv a dear old song' Sung with inspiring' mind. So do we long' to he hack among' Our classmates and teachers kind. .Xfter hattling' hard for three long vears, 6 'G ul Short nowfwe hegan to think That someday we would shed sad tears. .Xml hreak the connecting' link .Xs we had seen three classes do. XX'hen sadly they had to leave. So, too, we, who thought we would never get through Realized that we must leave. XX'e thought this when each took a seat That Seniors had taken hefore us. From that time on. the thoughfd repeat Others now were ohliged to adore us As we had done to the ones before. No douht it will he the same ln the future. we must succeed once more 'lfre we really get our name. The picture of the high school grounds And the rooms wherein we worked, XX'hen the toll of the high school hell resounds. Still in our minds will lurk. Often we will think of the things we've learned is- bv a ff: ' , . 55: 3 :tgp i -.z .. gg 1 .M . fi V .3-VJ.. f E 'Q v Q. 1 1+- . if ' . 5 'fn'-: . it 9.1 Q1 S5122 f' .- '1,.',,-v ti' rg.. lff iiiy .Z . . .3 I ,kv-'. f.- ,, :gm