“Achievement”
The Comment, The Yearbook of Keokuk Senior High School, Keokuk, Iowa, 1929
Today the sky is clearer,
The sunshine is more bright,
The future never rosier seemed—
We graduate tomorrow night.
Let's stop to think before we go
And our decision make,
When guiding hands are quite withdrawn,
The course that we shall take.
There are always some who prefer the shade,
Too languid the race to run,
And dreaming, enjoy the cool retreat
Which another's work has done.
When the world goes wrong and all seems lost,
And the gamut of fortune 'most run,
Only those survive who are strong and brave,
For they've taken their place in the sun.
It's not who you were, it's what you did,
That counts when your life is done;
And contentment grows and happiness comes
If your goal has been fairly won.