June 1931 School Magazine

t Brisban€ Girls " Grarnrnar Schoo1 Magazine.

Brisbane Gir1s' Gramrna,r $'chool Magazine.

To'me the city seemecl a loveiy maid, 'With laughing eyes ancl hair in silver braicll IIer vision in the gleaming lights I saw, They flickerect out-I saw the mairl no more.

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How I long to be a bird,

-Jusfr for an hour or two, f'lying among the tree tops, - Or hopping along on the grountl.

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fnsteatl it seemed as if a woman old

' Sat sbivering in her rags aucl blue with eold. ButwhenclawnbrokeshevanishecIoutofsight-Howsweettoflyintotheorchartl, Thecitybathetlherselfinrnorning1ight.Justforanhourortryo, Joan chadwick, rvF.

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Oh, to feecl on the fat yellow loquats,, -Just for an hour or two, l To thrtrst in my beak, wherever f willed, As the bircls in our garclen clo.

A PERFECT DAY. No better day can e ter be found Than one of es.rl;r Spring. ft stancls alone ancl \eautiful, Its praise all nations sing. ft clawns tmicl eloucls of rose ancl gold, To greet the rising su n, The earefree birds all joyous sing, The brook cloth gurgling run. The florvers seern nl ore beautiful Than oth er seasons ' are, And alrva,vs gentle breezes blow, To bear their seent afay. .A show'r or trn'o may sometimes fall, But soon the sun shines through, And makes bhe trees the greener seem ilhe sky to seem more blue. Then noon doth pass, arrcl shadows fall, The sun doth near the rn'est, tMicl crimson cloucls, touehecl rvith bright golal, The Sun-King sinks to rest. Then fatle the cloucls ancl comes the moon To flood the worlcl w-ith tight, The earth cloth sleep, 'tis sacl to know, Our day hath turnecl to night.

yfargaret fr:win, IVC.

AN EVENING DR,.EAM.

I stoocl alone on the hill-top, The city belorn' me lay; I could see the lights of the houses, And"the ships out on the bay. Alt was still arouncl me,

Not a souncl clisturbed the air, Ancl I salv not the merr.y eity, But a fairyland down there"

The myriacl lights of a fairy-ship, At anchor in tlr.e buy, Lit up the waters rouncl about, As clearly as the clay. Ancl thus I clreamecl of the twinkling lights, Uncler the starlit skyr. IIntiI there broke. ul)on my ear ' A rright-bircl's piereing ery. So I I eft the lon ely hill-top, Ancl the lights 0f the bay behind; tsut the mem ,ries of that evening dream Rank forcniost in nlrz nrind.

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-Gwen Brunchhorst, IYA.

-Ifargaret fngram, IVF.