Hamden Hall Country Day School - Perennial Pine Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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WALKING HOME FROM SCHOOL On my way home from school, I stumble over the gravel in the Hamden Hall driveway. It is fall, and the leaves are yellow, orange, bronze, and a very pretty red. The evergreens and pines make a glorious background. The sun is going down shining on this, making it even more brilliant. Then there is the hill, Blake Road, looming up ahead of me. I prepare for this by heaving a big sigh, and I start climbing slowly up the hill. My arms begin to ache carrying my books, but two more houses and I'll be home. The driveway seems even more steep to my aching muscles. Brownie, my red cocker spaniel, jumps for joy, seeing me. we both go into the warm house and get a snack before dinner. Then I settle down to my homework. Jean George, Grade 8 THE SUN THE ROBIN The sun is high, Little Robin Redbreast The sun is bright, where are you going? The sun is strong, I'm going to find a worm The sun shows light. For my babies in the nest. Andrew Kopkind, Grade l Averell Carter, Grade 1 THE NATURE ' s REIGN Out o'er the cold and barren fields To ice and snow .'v. the cold grass yields with rain and sleet and ice and snow The winters always come and go. But this the fiercest of them all Yields ice and snow in tangled brawl when gone the storms, the fields, they lay with skies o'er head a lightning gray. Awaiting spring, the nature's reign when fields with flowers are filled again The fields are slowly turning green And in the grass some buds are seen. And when at last the spring is here The little flowers then appear. Now Nature's fully in the reign Since spring is really here again. Terry Bryan Morehouse, Jr., Grade 6

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rfcnmg-rue: i no-xyrgirmvm 'rc piss THA'1'l,TBA1N WCome, come now. I don't want to miss that train! Aunt Sarah, will you put that hat box over there by the door? I don't want to forget it, for it has the cake that Aunt Millie made for me. We'll have to hurry now. The train leaves in a few minutes. Say, porter, oh yoo-hoo, porter. Are you sure that the train comes at three? Of course I'm going to Jonesboro! what track does the train come on? Track 46? Oh, thank you. And where, my good man, is track 46? Down the corridor to the left? Thank you, my good man, and here's a nickel for you. Come now, Binnie, don't dally! Binniel Don't put that suitcase on top of the cake! Haven't you any sense? Sometimes I wonder. My, am I excited! Now, Uncle Alec, put that trunk over there, and Jeremiah, please don't do that! I have enough things on my mind now without taking a pie. Although I do love blueberry pies, but they make my teeth blue. Let's go down to the train, now, it's a quarter to three. And I don't want to miss that train! Joe, will you please get a porter for me? Oh, and please give me my purse, Aunt Laura? I have to get my mirror. Ny, but I feel warm! Well, good-bye now, I miss you. Say, Aunt Sarah, tell Aunt Amie that I liked her cake. Thank her for me, will you? Betty Cureton, Grade 7 ' THE PINE TREE Little pine tree of the forest Alive in my memory Braving the storms of winter Bringing good cheer to me. Little pine tree of the forest Through the years I've watched you grow Dressed in your green of winter covered with glittering snow. Goodbye, little pine of the forest Goodbye, 'till we meet again Swaying in the winds of winter Listening to the rain. Priscilla Deibert, Grade 6 MY AIRPLANE TRIP SPRING As I flew up in the sky I heard the peepers singing I watched the clouds go floating by. Down by the creek. Down below I saw many a town I saw he daffodils swinging Stretched like a carpet on the ' In the grass so deep. ground. Owen Garner, Grade 4 Lurinda Mack, Grade 4