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CLASS SONG (A.H.S.), by                    
First Line: Now on this day of days
Last Line: Class of twenty-four!
Subject(s): Commencement; Graduation


Now on this day of days,
To start on untried ways
We have no fear.
We have been gathering force
From vast and varied source
Throughout our high school course,
From year to year.

We have two lives to live:
Did not our soldiers give
Us their bright light?
Our heroes lost their hour;
For with them new-found power
We'll lift our life bought dower
Toward greater height.

We go to build again
A world long stressed with pain --
To banish war;
We go to uphold right;
Strife has not dimmed our sight;
The world looks to us for light;
Class of twenty-four!





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