June 1940 School Magazine

Brisbane Girls' Grammar School Magazine

June, 1940

· Brisbane Qirls' Grammar School Magazine

June, 1940

Junior Public Examination. November, 1939

"WHISPERS"

There's a haunting tune in the wind to-night

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And they bid rne carry a message here, They bid rne speak for them. 'Tell thern', they said, as I wander'd by,

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We hold the seas for the_land we love,

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The wind sings low through the silent tree·s,

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In the velvet hush of night ,

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The pale moon's mystic light.

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The grasses bow as it whispers by,

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And drowsy flowers hark,

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For it brings thern tidings as it wings So soft through the scented dark . "As I wander'd over the flowery fields

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Of the Lowlands, far away, I talked to tulips and daffodils, And lilies and jonquils gay,

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And they bid rne carry their greetings here, From their crushed and war-torn home To the happy flowers that bloom and blow

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In free lands where I roam."

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