London Normal School - Spectrum Yearbook (London, Ontario Canada)

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H. T. DICKINSON Instructor, Music.

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NORMAL SCHOOL MISS L. GAHAN Librarian. LONDON ONTARIO] Before the ©oli ©ance Most followers of learning and the profs- of high degree Have run to form most truly to disprove my theory; They hold no doll will ever be, though means be used right drastic, Imbued with power, nor yet with grace, to trip the light fantastic . I shall not deign to prove them wrong with scientific verses; Enough that one young charming miss has volunteered her service; Arranged about the playroom stage, her clever toys we view — Fine players they; we cannot guess that each but waits her cue. To leave her genial family, and lend her lissome self To illustrate that dolls outstrip the gymrics of an elf. But only to the favored few ' tis given to behold The wee toys frolic, as they used in fairy tales of old. Now, when this maiden casts her spell On listeners and toys as well, Ah, we shall see what we shall see, Come the mystic hour of three. — Doriss Hudson. Woodland Fairies When the Iambs play on the hillside, And the soft, spring breezes blow, The fairies awake in the woodland wide And its dark recesses glow. When the moon is beaming brightly On a sheet of crystal glass, Beauteous spirits come here nightly And before their mirror pass. In a circle on the green. When the moon is overhead, Fairies in their glistening sheen Softly dance with silent tread. Hand in hand they dance together By the flickering fire-flies ' light; Softer than the downy feather, As they act their mystic rite. Through the misty, moonlight weather, By the alders and the willows, Woodland fames dance together Ere they seek their downy pillows. —May Fitch.