July 1956 School Magazine

July, 1956

Brisbane Girls' Grammar School Magazine

Brisbane Girls' Grammar School Magazine

July, 1956

ONE EYED JILL. One emerald gleam in the night, Alone, alert and watchful. One, green light in the dark, Silent and smouldering there. Outside in the gray of a dismal night, The colourless leaves are shifting. The moon is cloaked in a dusky shroud, And the hoot of an owl is drifting. The searching eye of the great black cat, In the silenced kitchen reigns; While ghostly shadows play on the wall, From shaded, eerie lanes.

A movement in the corner - A softly padding sound, The larger body stiffens -

A pounce with one large bound !

An overwhelming struggle, A small life lost, A sleek black body,

Curled in triumphant rest.

N. KNUDSEN, V B.

MISINTERPRETATIONS. "And even spoiled the women's chats"-Browning : A mistress approaching without warning . "Grey and ghostly shadows are gliding through the brake"-Alfred Noyes : Boarders after lights out. "! am sent with broom before to sweep the dust behind the door"- Shake- speare : Preparation for the Governor's visit. "'Tis the middle of the night by the castle clock"- Coleridge : Swatting before . examination. "Freeze, freeze thou bitter sky"-Shakespeare : Early morning athletics practice. "We have had enough of action and of motion we"-Tennyson : Forms with- out a fixed abode. "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter"-Keats Singing lessons . "My ·mistress bent that brow of hers"-Browning A mistress correcting examination papers. "What mad pursuit what struggle to escape"-Keats Five to four. "Strange, piteous, futile thing"-Thompson : A third former . "Off all man clotted clay the dingiest clot"-Thompson : The girl who dropped the ball on athletics day. "Sick in heart and sick in head"-Herrick : General feeling before, during and after examinations. "Doors, where my heart was used to beat so quickly"- Tennyson Common room door. "And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over"-Masefield ; After examinations. ESTELLE BOWDEN and ELAINE HASSALL 26

-W. POPE, VA.

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