December 1959 School Magazine

Brisbano Girls.~ Grammar School Magazine

December, 1959

December, 1959

Brisbano Girl!:!' Grammar School Magazine

CORROBOREE. A silken scarf that 'cross the moon was swept, A rr.Jst of grey, symmetrical and long, Winding slowly upward from the flames that leapt Within that brightly·shadowded throng. Like many-coloured leaves torn from the tree And dancing in the music of the storm, Beating feet throb out the rhythm wild and free And light licks up each madly dancing form.

A DAINTEYE DEVYSE FROM PARADYSE. Canto The First. My gentil luvve was Pricking on the Plain, Yclad in Flimseye gown cs whyte as snow, Yet she more Whyte- And in her Hand a milk-whyte Lomb she bore. (0 sn:alle lombe flo ur of. lombes aile) It was a verray parfit Gentil lomb, And let no morsel from its Iippes falle. Canto The Second. Was the Sumer icumen in? The Sumer was icumen (but not in) The lombe sprang up suddenly

April Calluthers, VIA.

And mocned as near a·s near can be , For wildly scampered here and there The fleas entangled in its hair. (There is not powder enough to kill The one red flea, the last of its clan, That scuttles as far as scuttle it can .) Off wcndering flea, peak and pine! I have powder to bid thee flee! Canto, the Third thereof.

On the lomb, as fleet as wind, The flea rode fur iously behind! She sprang to the stirrup, the lomb and she, She galloped, it galloped, and galloped the flea! And so she left me thusse ... (Say neigh! Say neigh!) . The memory of what has been, And never more will be.

(The difference to me! Alone without a flea!)

(With apologies to some English poets named and unnamed) . Barbara Kaye, 5.A.

CORROBOREE.

R. YOUNG, VIB.

PUPPET. Wooden body, pcinted, steadfast gaze, Dangling mindless, lifeless in your pla·ce; Immobile lun:.p of insignificance. Let but a touch from your creator's hand Move your lax, insubstantial lines of life, Then instantaneously you wake, Spring from your slumber into urgent life, Wdk, run, jump, leap for joy at your release; Your face expressionless becomes transformed. Your eyes light up, your mouth turns in a smile What was one moment passive, dull , inert, Now brings delight to hearts of young and old.

R. McDonald, 6A.

L. BATES, liiC.

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