Remembering St Mary's Infant School
Three Victorian classrooms
Glossy green paint over brick
Windows too high for little ones to see out
Fifty children in a class
Reciting "Three twos are six"
Playing Mary's Little Lamb on triangles
Putting hands on head for quiet time.
In the playground
Pinches, Chinese burns, hairpulls
Handbell clanging
Time to get in lines....Shhhh!
And yet the day
Of the first April shower
Teacher brings us all outside.
We smell fresh earth
Gaze at sparkling raindrops
Sing a little hymn
To thank God for all this.
That eternal moment
Never-forgotten birth
Of nature mystic.
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