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1916 Yearbook

1916 Yearbook

Title

1916 Yearbook

Description

Class Prophecy
Fortune from all doth hold the book of fate,
Save that from which we learn the present state.
But Father Time asleep I once did find
And with his hidden treasures stored my mind.
And, as I turned the pages toward the sky,
The Class of Nineteen Sixteen caught my eye;
And then I saw, in vivid vision clear,
The face and future of each Classmate dear.
Now first I saw the tallest of our band,
A towering man, who, with mighty hand,
Was seizing aeroplanes that sailed on high,
Pulling them rudely down from the leaden sky.
'Twas mighty Tony Jaeger I did see,
Who gave his strength to make his country free.
0 Garrity, I saw your future, too—
A man of tenderness and beauty, you—
The flowers and trees in you did find a friend,
To them your time and talents you did lend.
In truth, what else would Jimmy ever be ?
He always said a greenhouse he'd o'ersee.
1 walked into an office, large and bright;
Familiar faces came into my sight,
For there, bedecked in rich and costly clothes,
Sat Vince and Ed enthralled in sweet repose.
What they were doing, I then asked each one.
"Why, we're editors of the New York Sun."
I found one man who had no yellow streak,
And this no other was than Pete De Rycke.
Amid the wilds of Africa was he,
Hunting beasts for his menagerie.
He then was kind enough to let me know
That he was trainer for the wild beast show.
I deeper into the vision went
Till I beheld a monstrous circus tent;
And August Van—in robes, reclining there,
Was sitting in a fortune teller's chair.
There, too, Ed Ries, now much reduced in fat,
Was Ringling Brothers' far famed acrobat.
My attention then was drawn toward a fight
From which ran Doyle and Linnenkamp in flight,
With hair all roughed, and trousers tattered, too,
And followed closely by a whole train crew.

Date

1916

Rights

St. Ambrose University, 518 W. Locust St., Davenport, IA 52803

Identifier

http://cdm16810.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16810coll2/id/3437