July 1963 School Magazine

Brisbane Girls' Grammar School Iviaqazine

Brisbane Girls·' Grammar School Magazine

July, 1963

July, 1963

FLAME

LAMENT-ABLE RHYMES

Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet Eating her curds near a wall But when HISTORY came she was not very game For she didn't like "dates" at all. Little Boy Blue , ·come · blow on your flask. There's CHEMISTRY here, and wow! What a task! With beakers and test tubes and odours galore No wonder y•ou'd rather be out on the straw! Mary had a little lamb Its fleece was white as snow, But it would never come to school For MATHEMATICS - no! ! Joe~. and Jill went up the hill A very good son and daughter, But they wouldn't go near the PHYSICS lab - They knew the weight of water! Twinkle, twinkle, little star How wonder what you are. You're lucky td be up so high When my FRANCAIS vowels I try ! Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty• had a great fall. Der dummkopf! Der dummkopf! 'Cause he could have done My DEUTSCH worter easily - yes, every one ! · Little Jack Horner Sat in cr corner Eating his Christmas pie. But one ENGLISH term really made him squirm. And he exclaimed in highest glee and complete lack of modesty : "What an exceptionally unblemished character I have become!" - GLENYS KLEMM, IIID.

He stood on a rise, silhouetted against the brilliant red of the dying sun in the western sky, a magnificent chestnut stallioq - a brumby. With arched neck and head held high, he tested the evening air with quivering nostrils. Ears alert, he was ready for the first hint of danger. The last rays of sunlight seemed to have been caught in his golden mane and tail, giving them a fiery appearance. Below, on a grassy flat, a mob of mares, many with young foals, grazed peacefully. The stallion, confident that all was well, dropped his head to graze, but he still retained his wariness. Now and then he looked proudly towards his mob, but at the same time checking that none was straying. His head jerked up only to be dropped again as the mournful howl of a dingo sobbed through the night air. Suddenly a scent wafted to his sensitive nostrils. Man somewhere! In a flash he was galloping towards his mares with a loud, warning whinny. The whole mdb broke into a gallop as he drove them off into the bush, while the soft moonlight seemed to dance along his rippling muscles. When he was quite sure that .the wild mob had left danger far behind, he stopped them, and scion they had settled down to feeding peacefully, with Flame on a nearby lookout. Once again the stallion tensed as he saw a movement on the edge of the scrub. Another stallion emerged - a young black. Instantly Flame's challenge rang out, the other ac- cepted, and it was evident that Flame was about to battle for his leadership of the mob. The two stallions faced each other, rearing high while front hooves flailed the air, screaming their challenge. Flame attacked, a thunderbolt of fury. Hooves and teeth struck savagely into ther flesh of neck and shoulder, and the air was rent with shrill cries, while the herd stood by and watched in awe, ready to bow to the will of the victor. Gradually, the young black gave ground under the weight of greater experience, and, realizing the fight could only end in his death, broke away and fled into the scrub. Flame did not bother to follow, but stood on the churned earth of the arena flinging his : triumph to the stars. Then, wheeling on his haunches, he trotted proudly back, bleeding but victorious, to his mares. They met him with soft whinnies of appreciation, for he was still their lord and master. - SHERRYL KOINA . IVB. 28

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CHANGING RIVER Swiftly runs the shallow stream Babbling o'er the jutting rocks, Calling out its merry theme, Far away from city docks. Deeper pools 'neath ferny fronds Now are brown, no longer clear, Fish that swim in these dark ponds Have not fishermen to fear. Broadening here within the town, Bordered by the tall bulk stores; Boats sail slowly• up and down, Shipping wares without a pause

On the river, once a stream Calling out its merry theme.

- KAREN DEE, IVD.

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