Prairie Du Chien High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Prairie Du Chien, WI)

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Junior Poem 1 Another year and then you’re through; Juniors do you realize that you Into this busy world shall be cast To fight your battles, first to last? No friend to guide, no word of cheer. Separation from chums so dear. But if you’ve gone at your work with a will And tugged and pushed, to gain the long hill, Then having gained it, you’ve conquered through strife One of many such battles to come in life. 2 Juniors, let us as a class together erect A standard so high that all shall respect; We should work, not shirk, all through the day, While working, work, or playing, play Why not consider your class as a clan And help out your members, wherever you can. Then when you’re gone, a memory will cheer And bring you happiness from year to year. No dark future will there be for you, If, when in school, to your work you are true. 3 Now Juniors, let us contemplate The trials that will be our fate, For in the future we go through There we’ll paddle our own canoe. And when our student days are o’er We shall leave the guiding shore To sail o’er the ocean wide and deep. There will be no helping hand, Nor any place we could call land In this turbulent world, that never sleeps. —Milton Gremore '17 Page Twenty-Three