June 1941 School Magazine

Brisbane Girls' Grammar School Magazine

Brisbane Girls' Grammar School Magazine

June, 1941

· June, -1941

TO 'A PLOUGHMAN.

"TO AUSTRALIA''.

Furrow by furrow, toiling in the sticky mould, The ploughman faithfully follows his plough as his ancestors did in days of old. He turns the sod to plant the seeds To provide his family their needs To live a happy life. Don't you tire· trudging behind your plough? Do you never tire when you have wrought for hours and days and weeks on end? You plant the seeds before the rain Should fall, and then you start again To plough another field . Hours and days and weeks and months may travel s low As the tortoise or the snail; but you will never cease your honest work.

Australia! fair land of the valiant and free! How ccin we prove our love for thee? Thou art a country deserving our ·praise; Loud to the sky thine anthems -we'd raise For we che-rish thee, fair land of th~ fre~. And would forfeit our lives for love of thee .

-DOROTHY JOYE SMITH, III.E.

THE HILLS OF HOME. I often sit at sundown and watch the flaming west,

!.love the sun and the gorgeous clouds, but I love .the hills the best. For th e sun goes, and the clouds go, the stars come and the night; But the hills are there forever, through darkness and through light. The Hills of Home I call them, it seems to bring them near, With the·ir wooded slopes and summits, their outline bold and clear; I know their every beaU:ty, I've seen them ,;.eil~d ·in ~ist, In dark and stormy· brooding, by sun and shadow kissed.

From waxing dawn 'till waning dusk You crack the earth's resisting husk, And you shall always plough.

-PATRICIA BERTIE, III.B.

-LYNETTE SHAW, III .E.

From the Upper Net Ball Court.

Photo by E. Platzer

J. SMITH, III. E.

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