December 1957 School Magazine

Brisbane Girls' Grammar School Magazine

December, 1957

December, 1957

Brisbane Girls' Grammar School Magazine

RAIN FOREST Cool depths of mountain gullies

Where long vines trail, and pale lichens Grow on the still damp rocks. Ferns

Delicate and green, spring up from the humid earth. The thick lush foliage of figs screens the rays of light Fa II ing in dappled patterns on the forest floor Wher·e, half lost, lie lacy skeletons of leaves More lovely now than when they lived. A small stream drips its way through roots and stones Collecting here and there in limpid pools Edged with rounded pebbles. Here too ar·e slender palms Stretched with their reaching to the light And wind and rain Whence comes their life, and all the life round them. -J . MARK . VIB FREEBORN This is your land, its shores are wide : Guard well your freedom, this country's pride. God grant you never know The sights my childish eyes beheld- A mother's cheeks scarred deep with tears; A small child sobbing in the snow; An unmarked grave in mud-churned fields ; A life more hopeless through the years ; Tragedy and heartbreak, 0 Empty barns and broken plough . You must laugh for us both, my child- 1 have forgotten how. But then I look to' the cross In this southern sky , And ro~member the Child Who can;e to this life 0 -to die. -RHONDA V ICKERS, VB

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