Lake Stevens High School - Pilchuck Yearbook (Lake Stevens, WA)

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The Challenge Four years we have striven to mount the stairs From where we look back with regret On the school we must leave for the busy world, And those years we can never forget. And yet there is joy in the prospect Of the world with its challenge to meet To conquer, subdue it, and force it At last to kneel down at our feet. We have flung down the iron gage of combat And now we are girt for the strife; 7e are ready and willing to struggle In this glorious battle called life. For some will the victory be easy; For others, the strife hard and long; But for all there's the glory of striving. Of meeting the world with a song. For the world will admire your courage, Though you be of the rank and file. If you have a fair word for your comrades And are facing the world with a smile. So bid us fare-well, oh, our school-mates And wish us God-speed e're we go; For our goal shan't be won in an hour. That, only too well do we know. Helen Hirst