Mr Jackson, Writer in Residence
As the academic year 2021/22 comes to an end, I found myself in excited mood and so felt compelled to compose a little sonnet about Speech Day.
There is a touch of the Wordsworthian ‘spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ here, I hope!
Speech Day at Queen Anne’s
By Mr Jackson
No school has better pageantry than this,
when classes have closed to a clamour
of whooping and cheer, and the imminent bliss
of eight weeks off has all the glamour
of a dream; when the shining-morning hall
stands like a ready ship, bobbing away,
to a chorus of gulls’ chatter and bird call
and the teachers in fine academic array
arrive like a shoal of fishes to attend;
when the students – champions of the day –
relive the triumphs of the year and ascend
the main stage to a fervent roundelay
of applause. Speech Day! Never will you see
A sight so touching in its majesty
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