Granby High School - Yearbook (Norfolk, VA)

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merica, the eautiful Written by CHARLES DAY For the Granby Graduates America the Beautiful, America the Free, Long may your Stars and Stripes be bright With Peace and Liberty. Tonight, as young men and women, you are stepping out into the drama of Life, Cast in newroles, roles yet strange, but roles that must be yours to play, If you, as Americans, are to be true to yourselves, your country, your heritage, Upholding the traditions that came down thru the centuries unto this day, This day when America stands face to face with the stern duty of maintaining The Democracy of the World, bringing back into being the inherent right Of man to live, unhampered by tyrants, free of the yoke of oppression, War lords, whose greed and lust and thirst for power seek to overthrow by might All that men cherish, LIFE, LIBERTY, PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS, the will to speak Their own minds, to walk their own way and to live as they would live Not as slaves but as free men, knowing the brotherly love, the companionship That is born of a great peace, the understanding that only peace can give. America the Beautiful, America the Free, Long may your Stars and Stripes be bright With Peace and Liberty. You are standing as Americans, Young America, alive to the spirit of adventure, Standing face to face with new problems, new paths to walk, a new life, Realizing that Fate and only Fate can tell what lies ahead, where Destiny Is to take you, where new roads may lead, perhaps into the Valley of Strife But you will carry on, carry on bravely as those before you carried on Unafraid, undaunted, your hand will hold the flaming torch, will light the way That all may see before them the open path of Justice and Right, The awakening of a new and fuller life, a clear under- standing of all that is good, a new day, Brig-ht with the golden dawn of a new Faith, a new 0 e, a perfect Trust, When liearts are not afraid and where all humans may seek thru the eternal light Of Heaven, the Valley of Peace where men live one with the other, in love, Held in the all consuming fire of Liberty, Independence and Right. America the Beautiful, America the Free, Long may your Stars and Stripes be bright With Peace and Liberty. Liberty . . . what a world of meaning contained in those three syllables, Understandable to all Americans, cherished down thru the years That have followed those days at Valley Forge, of Bunker Hill and Concord, When brave men stood face to face with Death, determined to shake oil' the yoke of fears And plant in the fertile soil seeds of Freedom that would grow into flowers Of a new way of life, a life to be ruled only by the measure of right, Guaranteeing all who live beneath the Stars and Stripes, a continued peace, Asking nothing in return but loyalty, the determination to crush might As one would a worthless weed, keeping clean the emblem under which we live, Defending with our lives if lives be the price of honor, bowing to no one, Tyrant, dictator, war lords who even today challenge our leadership, our cause To carry the fight for Democracy unto all corners of the world until it has been, well done. America the Beautiful, America the Free, Long may your Stars and Stripes be bright With Peace and Liberty. Life . . . Liberty, the open gates thru which we pass into the Halls of Peace, Pursuing the happiness to which, we as Americans, are rightful heirs to have and to hold, Not thru the years that are ours to know but to pass down thru the ages yet unborn, To those who will follow on, Sons and Dau hters, who shall read of us, shall hear told and retold All that is passing and shall pass before America stems the tide of tyranny, And gives back to the world that which lived before these days of strife and stress Rededicating mankind to the way of righteous peace and full enjoyment Of all that we in America know, LIFE, LIBERTY and the PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. America, the Beautiful, America the Free, Give unto these, the rightful heirs, Full Peace and Diberty. 16

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