Miss Fines School - Link Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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Sur la Terrace My mother and father had been rn Germany for vacatron One day to my great surprrse a package came addressed to me I eagerly opened rt and there was a prcture called SUR LA TERRACE by Renorr It rs a prcture of a lrttle grrl and her mother srttrng on a terrace rn France The mother rs dressed rn a dark blue dress and a vrvrd red hat She looks beautrful gay and wrstful The lrttle grrl looks very brrght wrth sparklrng brown eyes and red harr She IS wearrng a blue and whrte apron dress wrth a dark blue hat wrth old world flowers on rt Around them are trees and bushes all drfferent colors for rt rs Autumn wrrh lrttle whrte sarlboats all along rt Behmd the lake are some beauuful blue hrlls whrch can be seen through the graceful tree trunks To me the prcture often seems real As I srt at my darly prano practrce I sometrmes feel that the lrttle grrl and her mother are lrstenrng to me I looks especrally beautrful hangrng on the wall wrth a pewter jug next to rt full of Autumn flowers Rachel Davres V Frrst Prrze Mrddle School Prose In the background there rs a blue shrmmerrng lake The Beggar Boy of Samt Peter s Square Shoes rapprng tapprng by As the lrttle one looks up The lrttle one wrth face so farr Eyes lrke the sky and that lovely harr Harr that rs golden Blown by the wrnd Bleached by the sun wavy and curly tumbled and rumpled T111 rt looks hke the stormy sea Here he stands rn a sea of legs Hoprng wartrng prayrng for a penny From some krnd soul who has so many He rs one of the many lrttle boys Wrth grrefs woes and bewrldered Joys Who stood rn that sea of people In Rome, Sarnt Peter's Square He's the lrttle beggar boy, The boy for whom no one cares Perry Woodbrrdge, VI Frrst Prrze Mrddle School Poetry 55 . a ,. .. ... , . . , . , . , ' s . . . , . , . . , , . , , . ,

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That Eerle F ecllng The stream went glldlng gently by me As rt slld along wlndlng ln and out lt seemed to be the most qulet most peaceful stream ln the world It dldn t babble lt dldn t tlnkle II Just went along wlthout the sllghtest murmur The only reason I knew If was movlng at all was because occaslonally a llttle plece of grass or a branch would go slowly 182115 by In places the trees that overhung were so close together that the sunllght was blocked and the tream seemed greenlsh In some places the lrght flltered through and dappled the green wlth brownlsh spots Where the sun could shlne on larger areas I could see the sandy bottom whlch gave the water a brownlsh yellow appearance There wasn t the sllghtest rlpple to catch the hlghllghts made by the sun ln fact the whole surface was glasslly smooth It was a sucky hot day so I was slttlng under one of the oaks on the bank try1ng to be refreshed by the shade What I really wanted was a swlm but I dldn t want to break that glassy surface II was Just too smooth And I d probably make a lot of nolse lfI swam I d break that qulet It was terrlbly qulet The whole world seemed to be hstenlng for somethlng waltlng suspensefully for somethlng or someone to make a nolse It only a rnrd would s1ng a fly 1:11144 the leaves shlver ID a breeze that would come from somewhere to cool everythlng off then thls awful spell would be broken and I could swlm Ah swlm If only a dog would bark a chlld laugh ln the dlstancc or a plane pass overhead for I had to cool o I took one look around me at the rows ol corn blue sky unbroken by clouds the oak trees the un dergrowth the mossy stones and flnally the stream That smooth unbroken stream wlth lts stealthy flow creeplng along sllently was my trlal my tempta tlon the Dev1l ltself Suddenly an lnsplratlon came to me Throw ln a pebble flrst break the spell and then you ll be able to splash all you want So I selzed a pebble and ll plopped as II hlt the water and sank slowly to the sand It was then that dlsquletlng feellng came to me lhave done Eh1S before I had broken the qulet before and seen the pebble slnklng to the sand before I had seen the rlpples spreadlng from the plopplng place to the shore before And yet I had never spent the summer ln the country before I had never spent a summer ln the country ln England be fore and whlle IH England thls was the flrst tlme that I had seen that stream And that qulet one would never forget a qulet llke that and I had never not heard any nolse before There had always been SOMETHING Hadn t there? I got up feelrng very uneasy forgot about wadlng and started as lf ln a dream or as someone else to wards home That lncldent remalned to haunt me all the rest of my llfe I thlnk my fourth Paula Cook Second Prrze Upper School Prose Ram by Krlstlna Grondahl XII tled for second PIIZC ln Upper School Prose n s - 1 1 ' 1 1 I I 1 - 1 1 '- . , . . , . . . . . . 1 1 1 - , . . . . ,, . . . . . 1 1 1 . . ,, . 1 - 1 . V . . . 1 . . . . . 1 S - U - X .1 - 1. 1 1 - 1 . . ,, . 11 - 1 ' .. ' ' . 1 1 1 1 - 1 ' 1 . . 1 1 1 - 1 1 . - 1 . . . , , , , . . - 1 1 . 1 1 ' I , , , . . . , . . . . . . - . . . . . , 1 h ' V - 1 1 1 1 - 1 . . . ' , . 11 - 11 - 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 ' 1 1 '

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