Oak Grove Coburn High School - Oak Leaves Yearbook (Vassalboro, ME)

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OAK LEAVES BIRTH I know not why the song Of one small bird Should fburst my heart with joy But early in the dawn This one light song Far sweeter even than a laughing waterfall Fills my soul And overflows, in bubbling effervescent happinessg Yet this is poignant gladness For Nature now Is giving birth to Spring And I must feel her pain To share her joy. 1941 GOD'S GIFT Early in the morning As the dew drops lightly fall And settle down on grassy hills And flow-ers large and small, I sit upon my window sill, And look at all in view, And watch th-e sun rise bright and red. God made this world for you! And early in the afternoon When the sky is a lovely blue And the clouds are sailing overhead And the wind is blowing too, l walk along the wooded path Beside a bubbling brook And list-en to its murmuring Like a story from a brook. And early in the evening As the stars are twinkling bright, And the moon is shinging o'er us Like a glowing lantern light, I think of all that nature is, And how it paints each view For each and everyone to love! ' God made this world for you! BEATRICE RAYMOND, '41 51

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MY STAR AND I I saw a single star last night, Set in a sea of blueg OAK LEAVES It glowed like a gr-eat white diamond, On velvet dark as the night. That star and I, We seemed to be together, For I was lonesome, too. I wondered if that star was blue, And longed for company, And then the moon came out, And chased the clouds away- I was glad to see that my star Wasn't lonesome now. JEAN CAMERON, '42. 30

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OAK LEAVES A Bouquet of Spring Thoughts VIOLET A violet is so small, On the face of this round b I often wonder how it stay So purple and so blue And always very true. all, S, DOROTHEA BENNETT, '42. When it's April, May and June When all the birds come home From across the whole wide world, The flowers will meet them, in fu Spring is in the air You feel it everywhere When you turn around You see it on the ground. You see it in the garden bright ll bloom. ' MINA URANN, '43. When the sun pours forth its light And you see it in the little flowers After the April showers. I am glad spring is here, When it rains all day long LEONIE RAYMOND, '41. And when the sun peeps through, When it is still raining out, There is a rainbow in the sky With its brilliant colors in a ring. DOROTHEA BENNETT, '42, When the grass on the earth turns green, And the bluebirdls flock to the scene, All is happy everywhere. No one seems to have a care. 32 MAVIS NEWCOMB, '41.