Milford chronicle., 1960-12-23
Best Wishes

Il SI0Co I0lS Is our last dTllClS AOi
the year, we would like to wish
all our readers a Very Merry
Christmas and Happy New Year.
If we are all nice girls and boys,
l am sure Santa Claus will be nice
to US and bring us a lot of pres
ents.
Gary Bunting
Grade 6-Mr. Edwin Simpsons Sec-
tiOn 4
On December %, the sixth
grades of Lulu M Ross School are
going to give a Christmas Assem-
bly, for the entire school All par
ents are invited Each sixth grade
room has picked a country to tell
land sing about After the assem-
bly, we are hoping that time will
permit US to have a party.
For this sixth grade party Mr..
Ball is in charge of songs, Mr..
Simpson-games Mrs. McGuie-re-
freshments, and Mrs. MacLean will
have a tree under which the
Christmas gifts will stay until we
are ready to- open them.
I'm very sure that all of us will
have a nice time.
Pamela Lane
Poems
Our class has been studying
poetry. Mr. Simpson has been
reading it to us all. Everyone
seems very interested in it.
Over the Thanksgiving weekend, |,
Mr.. Simpson gave us an assign
ment to pick a poem and mem
orize it. Some students picked ex-
cellent poems. l picked my poem
because l thought it was interest
ing and true. 1t is called, IF
Once You Have Slept On An Is
land" by Rachael Rields. Here
are a few lines of it:
You may chat with your neigh
bors of this and that
And close to your fireSide keep
But you'll hear ship whistle and
lighthouse bell,
And tides beat through your
sleep.
If once you have slept on an is
land.
1t seems to me that everybody
could find a poem that appeals to
him if he tried.
Kerry May
The poem l chose is called, "The
Barefoot Boy" by John Greenleaf
Whittier. l chose this poem be-
cause it is about a boy and the
outdoors. | think that the lines !
like the most are:
LET the million-dollared ride!
Barefoot trudging by his side,
Thou has more than he can buy
In the reach of ear and eye
Some of the poems that were re-
cited were comical, others were
historical, descriptive of nature,
and so forth. 1t was pleasing to
hear the poems read.
Beth Walls
l could not find poem at
home, but on Monday a f t r
Thanksgiving l found one in
school. The name of the poem is
'For Those Who Fail" l like this
line better than any other one
ST give great honor and glory
and tears" The authors name is
Joaquin Miller. l like it for one
reason only-it is about the world
and the man who tries and fails.
Marsha Cooper
We read poems that gave us
ideas of how we could go about
making our poems. They had to
be at least three stanZas in length.
We selected poems that gave some
! kind of description
The poem l chose was, "The
Fisherman" The reason | chose 1t
was that it gave a clear descrip-
ton of how the sky looked and
a clear understanding of some of
the dangers the fisherman had
Here are a couple of stanZas that
gave me the best impression:
"See you not that last star hiding
In cloud as you are riding?
Take your sail in, take your sail
in,
Take your sail in, Fisherman.
Danger turks for him who listens
Where the singing mermaid glis-
tens,
Gaze not on her, Gaze not on
| her,
Gaze not on her, Fisherman!
David Mills
The author of my selected poem
is Peter Cornelius. Here is part OF
my poem:
The Christmas Tree
"The mother sings of Lords good
| grace,
Whereby the Child who saved our