Meriden High School - Annual Yearbook (Meriden, CT)

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Such noble words as these in time of need Woiild often save the erring from their doom, While they in turn would bless us for the deed That kept them from a life of grief and gloom. , In lives like these we ever find the room For admonitions and kind thoughts as well, And do not need gruff manners to assume, Because to them the right means we would tell - By which their free and careless ways they may expel So Onward! Upward! they begin to climb The ladder of success and fame once more, And learn that endless vigor pays each time, As did that spider in those days of yore. The spider which we always find a bore, And think a very dangerous, useless thing, Once taught a man, as none had done before, The profits which persistence e'er can bring, i And that you will recall, was Robert Bruce, the King. Likewise on history's pages we may read Of men, whose lives were for the greater part Enhanced,,because of longings to succeed In labors that would stir the bravest heart. And who can tell what might have been their lot lvffithout the zeal which filled their very soul, W'hich spurred them on tonoble deeds, and what Will live as victory does on honor's scroll, And never die, so long as on the years may roll. lVhen Caesar started out for British soil, Out o'er the waters darkened by the night, And knowing of the perils and the toil, Why kept he on till Britain came in sight? VVhat was it that sustained him in the iight For entrance to this crude and rugged land And saved him from his otherwise sadiplight? 'Twas zeal, that spirit for a victory, and The thought of honor which did rouse his sturdy band

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