Plainfield High School - Hermiad Yearbook (Central Village, CT)

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T H L H E R M I A D The Nnght before Mld Years Tvvas lust before mid ye xrs, and all through the nlght I lay vellmg m bed full of fear and of frlght The figures of lessons I dld not prepare Came marching m llne twas a frlghtful nightmare The hlstory dates danced a Jig on my ear Til I m sure I crled more than a frlkhtened reindeer French verbs I most surely ought fully to know But for some unknown c xuse from my brams they d not How The nouns of Old Pngllsh I nowhere could find And old Buhllg' refused to give ald to my mlnd A figure 1umped out from a corner at me -Xnd all of h1s bones vsere as white as could b In one bony hand some numerals he held They squlrmed and they squnrmed then they suddenly yelled Don t forget your equations and qulckly they turned Into horrlble shapes whlch I never would learn But thls was too much' I yelled and awoke' Now no matter how hard those ex rms prove to be They can t be as hard as th Lt nlght was for me Calvm Hawklns 1947 Franklin s Maxlms Were to the Poor These Are to the Unwlse Woe be unto those who have talents granted to them md use them not Ye who thlnk more of punt md powder th mn of study md pr lctlce may Ve be cast mto the realm of stupldltv forever Ye who use the houses oi knowledge as houses of lllrtatlon may ye bc foleyer unmarried Ye who ZIVG trouble to vour instructors, may ye haye a flock of chlldren all of uhom wlll never give you rest Thoee who waste the commodities ZIVEH them m the houses of knowledge, let them forever be without Qurplus Those who wlllmgly break or destrov the furniture let them never be able to keep new furnlture Ye who take a fancy to throwing erasers and chalk may ye, after leaving' the house or knowledge nex er again touch these objects Ye who refuse acqualntmce to the leaet of your fellow students, may ye be forever wlthout fuends 14 . . 7 - . ' . ' . 1 . 1 ' . , . - . . . 1 , Y ' . . ' ' ' +,' 1 - . ' y ' ' , . , ' . I . I 41 -I .I I I, 1 1 1 ' v, I A4 I ' ri I , I my 1 u v , ' .H , ' ' 1 The figure, he moved and maybe he spoke, ' . n - n 1 1 y 1 I 1 1 1 1 4 1 ' 1 . . . . IK X IK . , . D . . ' ' 2' 1 ' 2 .' 1 2 , ' , ' ' N V . . . ' 1 Y , . ' ' , , , . . . . . . , A1 v I l 1 L4 - 1 ' 7 2 ' . I Av K1 4 V 1 v v 4 ' 2 . .

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